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hogbacks

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plural of hogback

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Thompson’s work is more personal, painted from the perspective of a hiker passing through an open space, looking up and around at the buttes and the flora, exploring unspoiled ground in search of some spiritual connection to nature.

— Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2026
The $450 million carbon-neutral library blends seamlessly into the rolling buttes.

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of buttes

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Named for the sleek, resilient seabird that nests along these subpolar cliffs (and situated right along the 55th parallel south), the property’s goal is to upend the prelude to polar travel completely.

— Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
As my colleague Blanca Begert noted, as ocean levels rise, waves crash farther inland and the coast continues to crumble, by 2100, almost half of all beach cliffs are likely to retreat by 30 to 80 feet.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

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Their reconstruction suggests that the Grand Canyon region once sat near an ancient continental margin in a position comparable to modern great escarpments found in places such as South Africa and Brazil.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
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

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There’s no such thing as a basic room here; even the smallest ones, at 240 to 260 square feet, look out over the bluffs to whitecaps winking in the sun.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
Homes were built on beaches, bluffs and dunes during a period when the coastal storm climate was generally mild and there were no real concerns with coastal hazards and future sea-level rise.

— Gary Griggs, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of bluffs

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Kherson bears deep scars of war, with plywood covering windows and shattered glass everywhere.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Authorities said investigators worked with Child Protective Services and a Child Advocacy Center and documented scars that were consistent with portions of the children's accounts.

— Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

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