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The new age movement brought flocks of people to its buttes, canyons and trails.—
Amanda Luberto,
The Arizona Republic,
24 Feb. 2025 -
Hotel Yellowstone sits on a butte that overlooks the mountain range and each of the property’s 36 suites are privately situated in clusters across the four-acre property.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2024
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Buffalo River Arkansas America’s first National River, the Buffalo River in the Ozarks, offers dense foliage, towering limestone bluffs, and free-flowing, undamned waters.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2025
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Del Mar’s coastal bluffs have long been threatened by erosion.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
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These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
8 June 2024
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Male sharks are also known to bite females during mating, leaving distinctive scars.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Moon, meanwhile, still bears many large scars from this period, because its surface is far less active.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2025
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On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2025
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The top pick in 2013, MacKinnon, 29, also is on the precipice of becoming the first player in his draft class to reach 1,000 points (362 goals, 637 assists).—
Pat Graham,
Twin Cities,
10 Mar. 2025
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Hiking trails begin to open, offering panoramic views of deep blue fjords set against emerald-green meadows and towering cliffs, although care must be taken underfoot.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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The tiny bar occupies a grotto carved into the cliff by San Rocco residents for protection from bombing during World War II.—
Gina DeCaprio Vercesi,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Mar. 2025
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Both islands share a granitic composition, leading to the rocky crags bookending sandy coves.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Most of my climbing took place at Boulder’s local crags, or more often than not, at the climbing gym, with occasional trips to far away destinations.—
Lynn Hill,
Outside Online,
17 Feb. 2025
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The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Oct. 2024
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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