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hogbacks

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plural of hogback

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The $450 million carbon-neutral library blends seamlessly into the rolling buttes.

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

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The beach is the stuff of postcards and paintings, hugged by cliffs with improbably radiant aquamarine water and a giant conical rock formation right in the middle of the bay.

— Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2026
In the spring, when the snow is melting and the springs that are high up in the rock cliffs some miles away are carrying it down full speed, the ditches overflow as does the little creek that runs near my cabin.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 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

Definition of escarpments

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Beyond the waterfront are dramatic coastal bluffs and an 880-acre preserve with miles of hiking paths and panoramic ocean views.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
Gaasterland said in her candidate statement that her top priorities include utility undergrounding, local control of land use decisions, and removing the train tracks from the bluffs while avoiding a new route that tunnels under Del Mar homes.

— Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of bluffs

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Nineteen months after the Palisades Fire leveled much of the seaside community, scars of the blaze are increasingly overshadowed by signs of progress.

— N. Kirkpatrick, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2026
Sharing a body that has changed over the years — stretch marks, cellulite, Cesarean scars and more — with someone new requires a level of vulnerability that can be nerve wracking.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 21 Aug. 2026

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