as in crest
the line formed when two sloping surfaces come together along their topmost edge
pigeons roosting along the ridge of the roof
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Recent Examples of ridge
Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
The Kona low has been pumping warm, moist air into the Pacific Northwest, feeding a massive ridge of high pressure that is now driving temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above normal across California, Nevada and Arizona.
—Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2026
Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Noun
The heat wave began on Thursday and is intensifying now due to a combination of dry, offshore winds and a large high-pressure ridge over California.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
The Kona low has been pumping warm, moist air into the Pacific Northwest, feeding a massive ridge of high pressure that is now driving temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above normal across California, Nevada and Arizona.
—Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
The rocks formed during the Archean and persisted until they were squeezed out along the ocean ridges more than 2.5 billion years later.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridge
Noun
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The more subtle navy blue jersey has a repeating star pattern with red piping that wraps from the shoulders to the side, a metallic silver USA crest and a matching Nike swoosh.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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All due respect to the 1930 semifinalists and 1934/1950 participants, but kit culture truly didn’t take off until more recent times, and the earliest jerseys were nothing more than a plain shirt with a crest in the center, anyway.—
Avi Creditor,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Video of the rescue shows the Cutter Mackinaw’s crane hoisting the snowmobile off a drifting piece of ice as the slab steadily shrinks beneath it before the vehicle is lifted safely onto the vessel.—
Ashley Carnahan,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Severe freezes in the mid-1890s resulted in a decline in the citrus industry, causing residents to drift away and leaving only 10 families living in Ethel in 1910.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Mar. 2026
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Tech giant Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company and the poster child of the AI boom, is banking its future on the rise of AI agents.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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Remember, Iranians, a lot of them bank their money in those Gulf states.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
15 Mar. 2026
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Most lumps such as these are noncancerous lipomas, or fatty tumors, and a decision on whether to remove them is based on whether the lumps interfere with movements or threaten other issues.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Despite their diversity, though, their experiences tend to be lumped together, and often treated as the same as migrants’.—
Hosffman Ospino,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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Visitors clump around it before and after Eagles games.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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The baking soda can clump up and block the dispensers.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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