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Recent Examples of foothill
The Tuscan-style villa is in Blue Ridge foothills, and serves as a home base for avid road cyclists wanting to experience the mountains on two wheels.
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Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
Readers raved about the inventive New Mexican cuisine and the destination’s natural beauty—sitting at 7,000 feet, Santa Fe is at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and enjoys over 300 days of sunshine per year.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Bubble Inn housed many of the youngest girls at Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old haven tucked in the foothills of Texas’ Hill Country.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Aged in the Himalayan foothills, Rampur’s whisky reflects a unique, cooler microclimate.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
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Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
Readers raved about the inventive New Mexican cuisine and the destination’s natural beauty—sitting at 7,000 feet, Santa Fe is at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and enjoys over 300 days of sunshine per year.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Bubble Inn housed many of the youngest girls at Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old haven tucked in the foothills of Texas’ Hill Country.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Aged in the Himalayan foothills, Rampur’s whisky reflects a unique, cooler microclimate.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
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Perched on a grassy knoll on the edge of downtown, The Inn sits comfortably away from bustling Main Street while maintaining easy walking distance to all of Berlin’s shops, restaurants, and galleries.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
13 July 2025
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The house sits on a knoll on the western shore of the freshwater/saltwater lagoon.—
Mary Forgione,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
Noun
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So did ground vibrations from three B-52s dropping 324 500-pound bombs in the central highlands just to our west.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
27 July 2025
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Next up are the Andean highlands and a stay at a 4,000-acre working ranch, with a hike through pre-Inca ruins to a condor conservation center.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
14 July 2025
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From just over a nearby hillock, a howl floated back.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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With the Sayre’s prime setting on a hillock, guests have a clear view of the intact former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces a few miles away.—
John Oseid,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Her $100m pad features a private road connecting the coastal area of Wailea to the uplands of Kula via an inland route.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
30 July 2025
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The pygmy rattlesnake is usually found very near water and occasionally in rocky uplands, pine woods and glades.—
Gabrielle Chenault,
Nashville Tennessean,
13 June 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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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2023
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The Beat response reclaimed the mountain as sacred.—
Dennis McNally,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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The rescue comes amid one of the most deadly summers in the Italian mountains.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Many of us took the North Cape plateau tour, the northernmost point of the European continent.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Aug. 2025
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Sustained backlash to his policies in surveys could persuade the president to change his approach while a plateau could indicate Trump's relationship with the public is becoming more stable.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Try removing the knob and spray some electrical contact cleaner down the shaft of the knob.—
John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast,
Hartford Courant,
10 Aug. 2025
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Tactile switches, knobs, and handles also help connect Scout drivers with their vehicle.—
Dennis Lewon,
Outside Online,
25 July 2025
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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