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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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Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Moose were plentiful, feeding and resting on grassy knolls.—
Ben East,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 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
Noun
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Visitors can pair the park with a stop along the American River or a drive through nearby foothill towns.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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The heat will also impact Sacramento, Modesto, Merced, Fresno and surrounding foothill communities.—
Angela Rodriguez,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2026
Noun
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Of course, Macy is not actually spending late nights at the distillery twisting knobs and loading the wash into fermenters.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
14 June 2026
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The screen shows headset battery life and audio signal information, and the knob adjusts the headset volume.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
14 June 2026
Noun
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Many hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians planted breadfruit, and the trees captured the spring water that flowed from the uplands, keeping the soil moist.—
Julie Orringer,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2026
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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,
16 May 2026
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After Mike Piazza’s towering fly ball settled into the web of Bernie Williams’s mitt to finish off yet another save for Mariano Rivera, Roger, needing only his twinkly eminence as a press pass, led the way to the champagne shower in the Yankees locker room.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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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
Noun
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The Macallan Importantly, this is the first time that Macallan fans will be able to have this type of experience without going through global travel retail or venturing into the heart of the remote Scottish highlands.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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West Highland Way, Scotland — Easy village-to-village walking through the western highlands.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Emergency crews searched Saturday night for a swimmer who went underwater near a popular rock face on a lake in the North Carolina mountains and never resurfaced.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
14 June 2026
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An Indigenous couple pay a visit to another makeshift cross, mist rises from a waterfall, and mountains rear up, first green, then brown, and finally glittering white.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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