hogbacks

noun

plural of hogback
as in buttes

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  1. buttes
  2. cliffs
  3. escarpments
  4. bluffs
  5. crags
  6. scars
Noun
  • Each summer, runners carry prayers more than 50 miles from the town of Bluff, Utah, to the high country below the buttes, and the White Mesa Ute community beside the monument holds its Bear Dance each year.
    — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
  • Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.
    — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Definition of buttes
Noun
  • People have driven to the edges of cliffs and even into lakes.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Pharma’s previous mega-merger wave was largely a response to patent cliffs and weak pipeline replacement, with companies relying on cost cuts to protect earnings.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of cliffs
Noun
  • Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Definition of escarpments
Noun
  • Sugar maples, oaks and hickory trees turn the bluffs red, orange, and gold.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026
  • The Latour influence stretched from European high society to the Artois brewing empire, before finally reaching the bluffs of Esparza.
    — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of bluffs
Noun
  • Here, outdoor enthusiasts can experience the raging Potomac River and the rocky crags of Great Falls.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026
  • That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of crags
Noun
  • The road linking the Moroccan town of Fnideq to the border crossing bore the scars of the unrest.
    — Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • On Saturday, the road linking Fnideq to the border crossing bore the scars of the unrest.
    — Sergio Rodrigo Ruíz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of scars
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