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
Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 13 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
Stoll Trail to Scoville Point Perhaps the most popular hike for lodge guests, the Stoll Memorial Trail offers numerous options including a 4-mile round-trip trail to the tip of the island that winds through forest and coastline, past bluffs and cliffs.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 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
Crews determined that the cave had two exits, either through the water to a beach with access to the bluffs or onto a pocket beach, but the trail was too steep to get onto the bluffs.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 18 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.
—Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
Best Things to Do Visit Fort Mackinac Built atop the island’s limestone bluffs by British forces in 1780, Fort Mackinac changed hands multiple times over the centuries, but currently serves as a living history museum.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 13 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
Stoll Trail to Scoville Point Perhaps the most popular hike for lodge guests, the Stoll Memorial Trail offers numerous options including a 4-mile round-trip trail to the tip of the island that winds through forest and coastline, past bluffs and cliffs.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 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
Crews determined that the cave had two exits, either through the water to a beach with access to the bluffs or onto a pocket beach, but the trail was too steep to get onto the bluffs.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 18 May 2026
Verb
Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals.
—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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There’s no denying the enduring glamour of this grande dame, whose secluded locale at the tip of the Cap is as much a draw for the jet set as the intimate cabanas where Greta Garbo once retreated and the saltwater infinity pool carved into the cliffs.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
13 June 2026
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Additionally, the Gri Gri Lagoon’s one-of-a-kind boat tour through natural mangrove tunnels lets visitors admire the area's biodiversity before reaching impressive cliffs and hidden caves in the sea.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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Runway, Pika, and a dozen others can produce footage that fools the eye on first watch.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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What fools these non-OpenAI mortals must be.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Esther Yi,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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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.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 June 2026
Noun
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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.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
3 June 2026
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Well, at least Cindy's been fighting the good fight, which Brenda tricks her into waging alone every time.—
Entertainment Weekly,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 June 2026
Verb
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This year's scenario simulates an airplane crash into a building, creating multiple injuries and casualties.—
Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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The Supercomputer simulates the remaining fixtures of a season 10,000 times and analyses the results to create an average league table from those simulations.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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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.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
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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.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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The phrase assumes that fatness belongs firmly in the past, yet the very need for such a term suggests otherwise.—
Virgie Tovar,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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My thesis simply assumes that geopolitical risk, tight inventories, and lingering supply disruption keep crude supported enough to prevent a deeper breakdown in energy equities.—
Tony Zhang,
CNBC,
10 June 2026
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