as in mountain
a small hill
a grassy knoll
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Recent Examples of knoll
From late April onward, the grassy knolls around Cortina, aka the Pearl of the Dolomites, spring to life.
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Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
Shots of Roger biking down idyllic Brooklyn streets, grassy knolls in Brooklyn parks and cozy coffee shops and bars on Brooklyn corners are abundant, but beyond that the borough’s depiction leaves viewers wanting.
—Morgan A. Grain, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
The date’s house sat atop a knoll.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
In a video from February 2017, Bishop shows off the compound, pointing out fruit trees and a cluster of tents pitched on a knoll overlooking a green valley.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
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Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
Shots of Roger biking down idyllic Brooklyn streets, grassy knolls in Brooklyn parks and cozy coffee shops and bars on Brooklyn corners are abundant, but beyond that the borough’s depiction leaves viewers wanting.
—Morgan A. Grain, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
The date’s house sat atop a knoll.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
In a video from February 2017, Bishop shows off the compound, pointing out fruit trees and a cluster of tents pitched on a knoll overlooking a green valley.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knoll
Noun
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During this time, what is now the Canadian Rockies was covered in water, and animals swam above the ground that would later become mountains.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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The most subdued of those was one of the most tempting: Hotel Wren in Twentynine Palms, which only opened in March, a 12-room, high-end retreat with muted colors, enormous rooms, custom furniture and poolside mountain views.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Just an hour away, in New Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson stowed his private painting gallery beneath a hillock and shut it behind a steel door.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2025
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Around them, the country seems no less fantastical—jagged outcrops of pale rock, rising from low brown hillocks.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
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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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
Noun
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And in 2024, hunters found unidentified remains including a skull fragments in foothills near the school, and reported it to police.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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Georgetown, a community in the El Dorado County foothills, is about a 50-mile drive northeast from Sacramento.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2025
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Imagine what Turner would do if the tables were turned.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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Explore home prices and rents for April Use the tables below to search for home sale prices and apartment rental prices by city, neighborhood and county.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
Noun
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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,
27 Apr. 2025
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Arid uplands and ephemeral wetlands host an exceptional array of life, from 13 species of frogs and more than 140 reptiles to 325 bird species like mulga parrots and nankeen kestrels.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The biggest threat was for parts of Siskiyou County above 4,500 feet elevation, including the Mount Shasta highlands, Medicine Lake and the Klamath, Salmon and Trinity mountains, as well as Etna Summit and Scott Mountain Summit, the warning said.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Located in the secluded highlands of Lanai, the resort’s minimalist aesthetics easily blend with the surroundings.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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While the Heston 120’s design pleasingly includes a classic set of analogue Marshall control knobs, it can also be fully controlled using a new Marshall app that includes an option to run a room calibration system to adapt the soundbar’s sound to your particular room layout.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 May 2025
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“Knoll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knoll. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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