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Recent Examples of hillock
The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.
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Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
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Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
Noun
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Tomkins added her own touch to the landscape, which comprises pleasantly untamed gardens on a wooded knoll with seasonal views of the nearby Hudson River.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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Its acreage includes pasture, timber and a central sage brush knoll plus about 2,800 acres of organic farmland, according to the listing.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
15 Apr. 2025
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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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
Noun
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And in 2024, hunters found unidentified remains including a skull fragments in foothills near the school, and reported it to police.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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Georgetown, a community in the El Dorado County foothills, is about a 50-mile drive northeast from Sacramento.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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While the Heston 120’s design pleasingly includes a classic set of analogue Marshall control knobs, it can also be fully controlled using a new Marshall app that includes an option to run a room calibration system to adapt the soundbar’s sound to your particular room layout.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 May 2025
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This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
27 Apr. 2025
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Arid uplands and ephemeral wetlands host an exceptional array of life, from 13 species of frogs and more than 140 reptiles to 325 bird species like mulga parrots and nankeen kestrels.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Thanks to courses in communication studies, students are schooled in the evolving business models of the creative industries, and dive into allyship and advocacy through sound studies and the school’s eminence in audiology.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The biggest threat was for parts of Siskiyou County above 4,500 feet elevation, including the Mount Shasta highlands, Medicine Lake and the Klamath, Salmon and Trinity mountains, as well as Etna Summit and Scott Mountain Summit, the warning said.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Located in the secluded highlands of Lanai, the resort’s minimalist aesthetics easily blend with the surroundings.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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During this time, what is now the Canadian Rockies was covered in water, and animals swam above the ground that would later become mountains.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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The most subdued of those was one of the most tempting: Hotel Wren in Twentynine Palms, which only opened in March, a 12-room, high-end retreat with muted colors, enormous rooms, custom furniture and poolside mountain views.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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