hummock

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Recent Examples of hummock 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 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 There, in a tangle of roots, dead wood and grass on a hummock about the size of a pitcher's mound, coiled a 2-foot-long snake. Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022 Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries. Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022 Like a swarm of rattlesnakes trying to escape their den, the first rat launches itself off the hummock toward the safety of the Roseau cane, revealing five or six others beneath. Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2020 The SoHo townhouse is packed with hummocks of clothes and sundry stuff, much of it to be donated to charity. Karen Heller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019 Now the potholed muddy track meandering among the hummocks barely resembles a road. Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019 As the permafrost thaws across Yakutia, some land sinks, transforming the terrain into an obstacle course of hummocks and craters — called thermokarst. Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hummock
Noun
  • Once the backcountry skiers were located on the mountain, air support learned two of the three men were injured and could not walk.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The Santa Ana winds—hot, dry gusts descending from inland mountains—and severe drought conditions have created a perfect environment for wildfires to ignite rapidly and spread uncontrollably.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In other promising Ohtani developments, the two-way star might even make his Dodgers debut on the mound before the previous May estimate.
    Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The team opened a new facility this offseason, loaded with turf floors, batting cages, pitching mounds, and a mural with former Terps stars on the wall.
    Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Tiny the hound became stranded in the middle of the cliff face near the mountain’s summit on Jan. 1, Mesa County Search and Rescue said on Facebook.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Some solid increases across the board here suggest that with at least these two titles (admittedly, a tiny sample size), the RTX 5090 may not see too much of a cliff with older games.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The wallets that achieved the greatest return on their TRUMP investments, meanwhile, had largely sold off their holdings by January 20, by which time the price had already tumbled from its peak.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The first storm will likely bring accumulating snowfall to just the higher Sierra peaks, according to the weather service office in Reno.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The day before, at the spot where Captain James Cook first landed in Australia in 1770 — now a national park — a smattering of families sprawled out on grassy knolls and enjoyed a leisurely, sunny afternoon.
    Victoria Kim, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The show is a display of staged orderly chaos, models walking across a hilly, grassy arena, crossing in and out around the little knolls, never disturbing or interrupting each other’s paths.
    Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.
    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
Noun
  • Additional hazards include possible thunderstorms, small hail, and wind gusts reaching 60 mph in the Antelope Valley foothills.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Peak gusts of 15 mph to 30 mph could hit at times over the weekend, and up to 60 mph in the Antelope Valley foothills.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Hummock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hummock. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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