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Recent Examples of foothill
One year after a firestorm ripped through Sue Decker’s neighborhood in the foothills of Altadena, California, her street is still a barren vista of empty lots and piles of dirt where tidy bungalows once stood.
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Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
Nevada City in the Sierra foothills is another gem, where historic streets host artisan shops and intimate theaters.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Bear sightings are common in Altadena, located at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
Denise’s family was out on a foothill in a large, modern ranch house.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
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Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
Nevada City in the Sierra foothills is another gem, where historic streets host artisan shops and intimate theaters.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Bear sightings are common in Altadena, located at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
Denise’s family was out on a foothill in a large, modern ranch house.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
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The cultural site was acquired by the city of Poway in 1987 as a way to preserve archeological features on the knoll, said Yoly Cohen, an interpretive park ranger in Poway’s Community Services Department.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Built in 1932, the grand home that sits atop a knoll in Phoenix is as historic as the Valley gets, with a salute to Mediterranean, California Mission and Spanish architecture.—
Alexandra Hardle,
AZCentral.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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In the 1880s, Belgium’s King Leopold II annexed the entire Congo Basin, more than nine hundred thousand square miles of Central African jungle, highlands, savanna, and forest, Katanga included.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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The path of totality passes just north of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS), a cosmic-ray-hunting telescope in Namibia's Khomas highlands.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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The storm stretched from the Texas Panhandle, across the upland South and Midwest to the southern Mid-Atlantic states.—
Richard Mize,
Oklahoman,
24 Jan. 2026
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Massive cypress trees and upland hardwood forests frame a landscape shaped by sinkholes and an extensive cave system—more than five miles mapped so far—that earned the park National Natural Landmark status.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Dec. 2025
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries.—
Paul A. Smith,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2022
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Empower Field was the one mountain too high for even the GOAT to climb.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
25 Jan. 2026
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However, in Spain, totality occurs shortly before sunset, meaning hills, mountains, or buildings might block the view.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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The 25-year-old forward for the Carolina Hurricanes, who was once expected to anchor a middle-six center spot on a contending team, has seen his game plateau and then dip over the last few years.—
Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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Through 2024, large language models kind of hit a plateau, to some extent, in capability.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
21 Dec. 2025
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The men claimed a pair of metal folding chairs set beside the campfire; Adi found a seat on a big knob of driftwood.—
Jonathan Miles,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Protect Hardware When Painting Painting can result in a real mess when stray streaks and drips land on handles, knobs, and pulls.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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