cliff dwellers

plural of cliff dweller

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliff dwellers
Noun
  • Ohio pays nursing homes a daily rate for Medicaid residents and provides additional payments to facilities that meet certain quality benchmarks.
    Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026
  • To Crowley and Dixit, their multispecies map is a natural extension of this worldview by identifying places meaningful to Penryn’s nonhuman residents and visitors.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The unidentified American woman was stuck on Pitcairn, an island with only about 50 inhabitants, no airport and infrequent maritime options to depart.
    Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • By 1830 a quarter of Ohio’s 1 million inhabitants clustered in the state’s southwestern corner.
    Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • All 12 occupants of a skydiving plane that crashed Sunday about 60 miles south of Kansas City died, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
    Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 14 June 2026
  • Police said the occupants of the Toyota were taken to the hospital and had injuries that were not life-threatening.
    Jose Fabian, CBS News, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • The administration argued that the fee constituted a monetary penalty that the president had lawful authority to impose under federal immigration ​law to restrict ​the entry of ⁠certain foreign nationals.
    Reuters, NBC news, 8 June 2026
  • The digital system aims to streamline and better secure border crossings for non-EU nationals on short stays.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Teens, tweens, and shoebox-sized apartment dwellers alike can welcome this upholstered bed frame into their space.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • That being said, many city dwellers don't have this option.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • In Les habitants, Depardon outfits a camper-trailer with mics and cameras and hits the French highways, parking in various locations around the country and inviting a range of people—teenagers and the elderly, single people and couples, parents and children—inside simply to talk.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sterman, after much contemplation, decided to use natives but didn’t develop a detailed plan.
    Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • With Mexico opening the tournament against South Africa, fans and natives said that short of being at the match, Fan Festival was the next best spot to see the tournament.
    Dan Snyder, CBS News, 11 June 2026
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“Cliff dwellers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliff%20dwellers. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.

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