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cuesta

noun

Definition of cuestanext
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  1. cliff
  2. escarpment
  3. bluff
  4. butte
  5. hogback
  6. scarp
  7. precipice
  8. scar
Noun
  • Dumont worked with a cast of non-professional actors, adopting a documentary-like approach to the film, shot against the cliffs and open waters of the Mediterranean.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Still, lawmakers are also aware that the pending cliff of automatic 22% cuts could come as soon as 2032, according to the latest report from the Social Security Board of Trustees.
    — Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of cliff
Noun
  • The researchers say the ancient escarpment may have influenced river systems, sediment transport and the flooding of continental interiors long before the rapid diversification of complex life during the Cambrian explosion.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.
    — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
Definition of escarpment
Noun
  • Does that render all that talk about moving to Tennessee and Texas as a massive bluff by Ellison’s team?
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Buffalo Rock State Park While the bluffs and river provide a similar backdrop as Starved Rock, Buffalo Rock State Park offers unique experiences.
    — Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Midwest Living, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of bluff
Noun
  • The $450 million carbon-neutral library blends seamlessly into the rolling buttes.
    — Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Each summer, runners carry prayers more than 50 miles from the town of Bluff, Utah, to the high country below the buttes, and the White Mesa Ute community beside the monument holds its Bear Dance each year.
    — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of butte
Noun
  • In 1876, Arthur Lakes, a professor at Jarvis Hall college, discovered several dinosaur fossils on the west side of a hogback west of Denver, including the first fossils to be called stegosaurus.
    — Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Views to the east take in Red Rocks Park, the Dakota Ridge hogback, Green Mountain and downtown Denver in the distance.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 May 2026
Definition of hogback
Noun
  • The team used high-resolution topographic data from satellites, aircraft and drones to detect fault scarps, narrow ridges formed when the ground shifts during an earthquake, that were previously hidden under dense forest and glacial deposits.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of scarp
Noun
  • Meanwhile the Fed is on the precipice of raising its benchmark short-term interest rate.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Last season, set pieces propped the floor up just above the relegation precipice.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of precipice
Noun
  • This includes, but is not limited to, the Robertson Draw, East Side, Elk, and McGhee-Remington burn scars.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Autopsy photos displayed in court revealed welts, bruises and scars all over the boy’s body, and police found ropes and chains in the apartment that witnesses said were used to restrain him.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of scar
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