as in cliffs
a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice
fossils embedded in a stone bluff that date from the Jurassic period
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as in fools
to cause to believe what is untrue
I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau
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as in pretends
to present a false appearance of
the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead
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Recent Examples of bluffs
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
30 June 2026
Teams should be much more aggressive in calling bluffs from agents in situations like this.
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Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
Dunes Beach, Half Moon Bay Part of Half Moon Bay State Beach, Dunes Beach is a beautiful place to sunbathe the day away, with sandstone bluffs and, of course, spectacular dunes.
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Adeline Duff,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
Today, visitors can hike miles of trails and take a scenic drive through the bluffs.
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Usa Today Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
The latter peaks in verdant bluffs before descending more than 600 feet to narrow county roads built around the turn of the 20th century.
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Katie Lauer,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
Kahanamoku first surfed Corona del Mar in 1914, before the surf break was destroyed by jetties in the ’30s, and became friends with the Vultee family, which had a home on the bluffs.
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
The Fort Steele railroad bridge, for all its size, lay low ahead of them, a flush span carrying the tracks between those bluffs on either side of the river, its superstructure entirely below deck.
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Eric Moskowitz,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
In late April, the board approved plans to install natural-looking wooden posts connected by metal chains between the sidewalk and the bluffs to encourage pedestrians to stay off the cliffs and use beach access stairs.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 2026
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2026
Mulugheta, who employed a similar strategy with client Jalen Ramsey that successfully forced a trade during the 2019 regular season, does not come off as a man who cavalierly bluffs.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
In Peninsula State Park, kayak beneath limestone bluffs or climb Eagle Tower for panoramic views of the surrounding landscape.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
30 June 2026
Teams should be much more aggressive in calling bluffs from agents in situations like this.
—
Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
Dunes Beach, Half Moon Bay Part of Half Moon Bay State Beach, Dunes Beach is a beautiful place to sunbathe the day away, with sandstone bluffs and, of course, spectacular dunes.
—
Adeline Duff,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
Today, visitors can hike miles of trails and take a scenic drive through the bluffs.
—
Usa Today Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
The latter peaks in verdant bluffs before descending more than 600 feet to narrow county roads built around the turn of the 20th century.
—
Katie Lauer,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
Kahanamoku first surfed Corona del Mar in 1914, before the surf break was destroyed by jetties in the ’30s, and became friends with the Vultee family, which had a home on the bluffs.
—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
The Fort Steele railroad bridge, for all its size, lay low ahead of them, a flush span carrying the tracks between those bluffs on either side of the river, its superstructure entirely below deck.
—
Eric Moskowitz,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
In late April, the board approved plans to install natural-looking wooden posts connected by metal chains between the sidewalk and the bluffs to encourage pedestrians to stay off the cliffs and use beach access stairs.
—
Ashley MacKin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 2026
Verb
Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals.
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John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2026
Mulugheta, who employed a similar strategy with client Jalen Ramsey that successfully forced a trade during the 2019 regular season, does not come off as a man who cavalierly bluffs.
—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bluffs
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California purchased the swath of rocky cliffs and windswept shoreline in the 1960s to expand the construction of Highway 1 and create a scenic viewpoint for highway travelers, according to a California Coastal Commission report.
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Instead of sheer cliffs and waterfalls, the landscape is open and often windswept.
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Runway, Pika, and a dozen others can produce footage that fools the eye on first watch.
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What fools these non-OpenAI mortals must be.
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Beauty, then, arises from the pain and struggle of experiencing oneself as a site of divine truancy, and ugly is that which pretends to be directly equivalent to the soul, God, etc.
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The person on the phone pretends to be IT support and tries to convince the employee to install remote desktop software.
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.
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This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
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Cthulhu, who tricks the Minions into releasing his friends from purgatory.
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Removing fading flowers and their seed pods tricks the plant to redirect its energy from producing seeds to producing more scapes and flower buds, as well as putting energy into root development and storing energy for the next growing season.
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Swanson earned the national championship in the Postsecondary Collision Damage Appraisal Division, a competition that simulates the work of professional collision estimators and insurance appraisers, according to a press release from the college.
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The mission simulates a scenario in which a maneuverable satellite rapidly approaches and inspects another spacecraft that is not cooperating.
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The complaint also claims that the image deceives customers into thinking Lipa has endorsed the product and dilutes her brand identity.
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The fragmentary Ni 12501 tablet from the Early Dynastic III period of Mesopotamia breaks off when Fox deceives the inhabitants of the netherworld in his quest to retrieve the storm god Ishkur.
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The Gulf, though legally unchanged, now assumes direct Iranian strike risks.
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Photos of the chefs are right there on the packaging, and the service correctly assumes that their reputations will draw you in.
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“Bluffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluffs. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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