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.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
Just beyond the tips of your toes, the precipices and terraces on the walls of the canyon plunged in a series of immense stair steps — down and down again for nearly 6,000 vertical feet.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
Just watch out for those precipices.
—
Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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