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Outside on a grassy knoll, fans wait on the ground and up in the bleachers for their superstar, who's performing Stateside for the first time since her appearance at the One Love Manchester concert on June 4.
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In one case, someone built a house on a knoll much above the street.
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After climbing a brisk 1500 feet in two miles, hikers emerge from evergreen forest to a ridgeline and a series of rolling knolls.
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There are about a half-mile of trails and several overlooks on top of rocky knolls and under pitch pines and scrub oaks.
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As the bench's chief judge, Bagneris wanted to stick to a previous plan to build a new courthouse around the grassy knolls of Duncan Plaza.
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Meanwhile, the San Francisco Archdiocese exhumed 39,307 from Calvary Cemetery for reburial beneath a knoll not far from Colma’s Holy Cross Cemetery entrance.
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The cause of death was climate change: steadily warming and drier summers, that stressed the tree in its position atop a droughty knoll.
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There can’t be many locations in Southern California prettier to celebrate Earth Day than San Clemente’s Parque Del Mar, a grassy knoll overlooking the beach and pier.
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Origin and Etymology of knoll
Middle English knol, from Old English cnoll; akin to Old Norse knollr mountaintop
Other Geology Terms
anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale
Origin and Etymology of knoll
Middle English, probably alteration of knellen to knell
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