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Recent Examples of hillock
Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
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The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
From just over a nearby hillock, a howl floated back.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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
There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
From just over a nearby hillock, a howl floated back.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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
There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
Noun
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As the surfing continued, vendors set up booths on the grassy knoll just off the beach, Hodad’s sold burgers from a portable outdoor kitchen and skater dudes built ramps in the beach parking lot for the Sunday skateboarding competition.—
Tony Le Calvez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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All the intricate meetings and rolling knolls, all the reliable critiques of the kids today, have left this former student in the ranking spirit.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Yuba County faces a range of natural disaster threats, including flooding near the Feather and Yuba rivers and wildfire danger in surrounding foothill communities.—
Kayla Moeller,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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Mendoza is a destination that attracts true wine lovers with a taste for adventure, seeking to plunge into the depths of flavor Argentine wines are known for and venture to visit the gauchos in the foothills, where savory smoke billows from meat-laden asados.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 May 2026
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Clean the base of the toilet that is on the floor and all the knobs, too.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
11 May 2026
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Justin Thomas had his caddie place hole-sized discs on every corner of the 17th green at Aronimink on Monday, all of them perched on knobs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 May 2026
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Today, the uplands are so broadly sunlit that most analysts say future interest rate cuts from the Fed are now likely pushed off into the far distance.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Farmers in the area are also vitally important to protecting the natural landscape, as parts of Swaledale and the surrounding uplands are designated as Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
5 May 2026
Noun
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Emery’s eminence in Europe has been predicated on managing two-legged contests, knowing that the pace and rhythm is different.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Built in 1885, the route once played a key role in transporting coffee and grains from the Curitiba highlands to the coast.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2026
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Take away the highlands and the suburbs and the big round table, and these are two shows that tell stories through the words and actions of real people.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 May 2026
Noun
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By 1890, the population of Los Angeles had nearly quintupled, and land speculation in the city’s outlying areas, from the coast to the mountains, was rampant.—
Oren Peleg,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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South Dakota Custer State Park Resort, Custer Four historic lodges plus a variety of cabins nestle among 71,000 acres of mountains at Custer State Park.—
Jess Hoffert,
Midwest Living,
9 May 2026
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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