cuesta

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Noun
  • Construction fell off a cliff after the housing bubble burst over a decade ago and never really recovered.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • In Zumaia, Ermita de San Telmo, an iconic stop on the Camino de Santiago, is a 16th-century church perched on the rocky Flysch cliffs made famous in Game of Thrones.
    Michelle Arellano Martin, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Tries a first flight from the escarpment, a learner breeze across the valley, and realises – wow!
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • For a break from the bustle, locals head to the Edge of the World, a dramatic escarpment about an hour’s drive from downtown that drops into an endless stretch of desert.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After several major storms led to erosion, those seats have been moved up to a little bluff, just in front of the two pools (thankfully, the beautiful view remains the same).
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The 30-acre property sits on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Within minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.
    Cari Shane, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Enchantment's accommodations include casitas and suites, with designs and decor inspired by the Southwest desert landscape and views of Sedona's red rock buttes.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second morning, Bob hunkered down next to a thick spruce on a frosty hogback between Disappointment Lake and Snowbank.
    Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That loop yields a two-mile hike with 300 feet of climbing, not counting the short spur trail up to the hogback.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The farther away from a scarp, the lesser the hazard.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That is a clear fingerprint of an earthquake, one that, according to the rounding and wear and sloping of the scarp, occurred about 2.6 million years ago.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • With the shutdown on the precipice of being the longest in history, economists and policymakers are left to look at alternative data for big-picture indicators.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That said, Miami is 1-6 on the year and appears at the precipice of wholesale changes to both the roster and coaching staff.
    Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The scars of that era run deep.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The feeling those two summoned in back-to-back Bulls losses were a product of battle scars accrued through years of learning to seize games.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Cuesta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuesta. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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