landform

as in land
a natural feature (such as a mountain or valley) of the Earth's surface These landforms were created by glaciers.

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Recent Examples of landform Over long periods of time, this process results in the creation of new land, often in the general shape of a triangle - hence this landform has the name ‘delta’ after the Greek letter (see image of Nile Delta, below at right). Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 Whereas Irwin’s geometric interventions, Zewde read in the late artist’s writings, were intended to echo the passage of trains parallel to the Hudson, her curvaceous landforms will bend the axis perpendicular to the water. Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024 The connection to contemporary art also informs the design of the bottle, which was inspired by the curving landforms of Charles Jencks’ Cells of Life at Jupiter Artland. Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Rose is stoked to see how insights from predictive artificial intelligence impact play while also offering a glimpse into future applications—like preemptively assessing how even subtle architectural changes, from adding trees to adjusting landforms, will affect scoring. Mike Dojc, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landform
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  • Last week, the Department of the Interior announced that land would be transferred to the Army, allowing the military would of federal land to support Border Patrol for a period of three years.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Those canals, together with the ingenious system of chinampas, or floating plots of farming land, are located southeast of Mexico City, and serve as the legacy of a pre-Hispanic agriculture.
    Gwendolina Duval, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
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  • New plants for the landscape might include bromeliads, orchids and other foliage plants. 30.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
  • As the draft enters its final day, Sanders has yet to be picked causing previous pre-draft narratives to resurface throughout the NFL media landscape.
    Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Landform.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landform. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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