as in mountain
a small hill
a grassy knoll
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Recent Examples of knoll
The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Families would spread picnic blankets across the grassy knolls as bikers safely pedaled down paths devoid of cars.
—Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
The left arm heads up a craggy knoll for a short trek to an overlook above Paloma Community Park, a nice little diversion.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2024
The entire family lived, learned and worshiped on the campus, perched atop a grassy knoll called Hangman’s Hill.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Families would spread picnic blankets across the grassy knolls as bikers safely pedaled down paths devoid of cars.
—Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
The left arm heads up a craggy knoll for a short trek to an overlook above Paloma Community Park, a nice little diversion.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2024
The entire family lived, learned and worshiped on the campus, perched atop a grassy knoll called Hangman’s Hill.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knoll
Noun
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Once the backcountry skiers were located on the mountain, air support learned two of the three men were injured and could not walk.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2025
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His words resonate against images of the changing face of denuded mountains, pointing up a key theme now more relevant than ever — the cost to nature of man’s progress.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.—
Gabriel Winslow-Yost,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.—
Patricia Marx,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2023
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The National Weather service forecast wind gusts of 50 to 80 mph in parts of southern California and up to 100 mph gusts in mountains and foothills last week.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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This brought surges of powerful winds across the Los Angeles and Ventura County Mountains -- including in some places that don't typically see winds that strong, like Burbank and in the foothills of the Pacific Palisades.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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According to the post, the venue's wedding coordinator returned to the guests' table throughout the evening to discuss the tasting items with them.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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And, in fact, when President Biden took the use of force off the table even before Russia’s full-scale invasion, that was one of the least controversial aspects of his policy toward this war.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The site also boasts grasslands, dry forests and upland areas — just about every habitat southern Indiana has to offer.—
Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
20 Dec. 2024
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The country’s upland areas are covered by a patchwork of teams made up of locals from all walks of life.—
Tristan Kennedy,
WIRED,
7 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Leave a comment View Comments The formations have also provided insight into one of the biggest mysteries on Mars — why the planet has a marked boundary between the soaring highlands of its southern hemisphere and shallow plains in the northern hemisphere.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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Still, White had to find the actual hotel, spending months touring Thailand’s rolling northern highlands, bustling Bangkok, and southern beach resorts of Phuket and Krabi.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Examples include moving the master bedroom to the first floor, replacing knobs with handles, and installing tall toilets.—
Steve Parrish,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Interior 1/6 The absence of anything remotely resembling a physical knob or dial inside either vehicle is a pretty good sign that automakers continue to ignore the pleas of customers to stop porting every last bit of functionality through its digital interfaces.—
Andrew J. Hawkins,
The Verge,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Knoll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knoll. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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