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Recent Examples of cliff dweller
In reality, the cliff dwellers had been Ancestral Puebloans who had migrated south to the modern pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliff dweller
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Greenhaven had racked up years of health violations, including from letting untrained workers administer medications, lacking enough employees to care for people with dementia, and neglecting a resident who smeared feces over his body, bed, floor, and bathroom, the notice said.—
Jordan Rau,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
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The Chicago Heights resident did take more than a year off from a nursing program at Rasmussen University to get the migraines under control and was already dealing with a thyroid problem.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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Four crew members, including the captain, are from Montenegro, officials said, while Croatia’s foreign ministry confirmed two Croatian nationals are also aboard.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Scozzola echoed residents’ concerns that real estate was being bought up by foreign nationals, corporations and hedgefund companies, driving up prices while keeping the actual properties vacant.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Another occupant was uninjured, fire officials said.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Apr. 2026
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The clip later showed police escorting the car's occupants from the pond to shore.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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Still, why would a government more than six thousand miles away from a suburban Pennsylvania town that has fewer than ten thousand inhabitants be poking around in a distant municipal water system?—
Sue Halpern,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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The decades-old attraction has been closed since last September when its more than 30 inhabitants were relocated elsewhere in the park.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Sara Doody Mid-Century Lift-Top Coffee Table Apartment dwellers will love this space-saving coffee table with a convenient lift-top that doubles as a kitchen table and work desk.—
Ali Faccenda,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
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Condo dwellers who are also property taxpayers within the city have historically paid private haulers for their trash pick-up and have never enjoyed free trash hauling by the city.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Drawing on these accounts, Thomas published some of the first books that explored the Japanese experience of the war at a time when the subject was seldom discussed, including in the Japanese American community.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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In experimental research with colleague Kristof Madarasz, Imas found that willingness to pay for an identical good roughly doubled when subjects learned a random subset of people would be excluded from purchasing it.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
19 Apr. 2026
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From the opening scene of the family’s move to town, the soft and wistful light shapes the film’s emotional world.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Then on Friday, Israeli warplanes struck near a state security office in the southern town of Nabatieh, killing 13 officers, according to the Lebanese president’s office.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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So, if people went out and planted natives, they're probably adapted to this.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The Bronx native was seated with a friend in a Hollywood eatery when they were approached by another woman who appeared to be unwelcomed, according to TMZ.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Cliff dweller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliff%20dweller. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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