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Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
—Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
—Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hillock. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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hillock
noun
hill·ock
ˈhil-ək 
: any small anatomical prominence or elevation see axon hillock
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