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cuestas

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plural of cuesta

as in tors

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Stone-Robb pointed to its cliffs, ocean views, surf breaks, walkable streets, and a lively central market as the likely cause of its popularity, noting that home prices here run lower than in nearby Cascais despite a similar coastal appeal.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026
The trail delivers waterfalls, alpine lakes and huge granite cliffs, and most trailheads require a wilderness permit that can be competitive to secure.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026

Definition of cliffs

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Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.

— Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
From the layer-cake buttes of Badlands National Park to the winding canyons of the Black Hills, this part of South Dakota is legendary.

— Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026

Definition of buttes

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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.

— New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.

— Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025

Definition of escarpments

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The Latour influence stretched from European high society to the Artois brewing empire, before finally reaching the bluffs of Esparza.

— Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Wilson State Park, Kansas Wilson State Park is home to beautiful sandstone bluffs and its own reservoir, which offers excellent fishing (for bass and walleye), kayaking, swimming, and paddleboarding.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026

Definition of bluffs

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In Uvalde — where the scars of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting remain impossible to ignore — one person was killed and dozens of homes were destroyed, compounding years of the community’s collective grief.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Tehrani’s patients include executives, entertainers and public-facing professionals looking to restore definition to the arms, abdomen, shoulders and chest without the extensive scars associated with traditional body-lift surgery.

— Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026

Definition of scars

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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.

— 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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