landforms

plural of landform
as in lands
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 landforms Beyond blending into the surrounding landforms, Snøhetta designed TRPL with a goal of meeting demanding sustainability certifications. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 July 2026 Today, meteorologists can take a pandemoniac system — Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and landforms — and make accurate forecasts up to two weeks into the future. Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026 One of the highest-priority landforms was Orientale Basin. Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026 Shinomiya pays detailed attention to everything on screen, crafting not just the faces and emotions of the characters, but also all the other creatures, natural landforms and skies of this story world. Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026 The Earth’s continents and landforms are always changing thanks to the tectonic plates. Devika Rao, TheWeek, 16 Jan. 2026 By studying lake sediments, soil layers, and nearby landforms, researchers determined the ancient lake’s size and shape and how the climate changed. Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025 The chain of landforms to the west of Kauai is so small that it was not easily spotted in the satellite images taken as Kiko roared across the Pacific toward Hawaii as a Category 4 hurricane. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 The landforms at the preserve are remnants of glaciation. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Campione said her campaign was focused on protecting rural lands from being annexed into cities for rural subdivisions and stopping activities that could ruin water quality or override property rights.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • When those decisions go wrong, the cost lands on defendants, victims and anyone whose future turns on what an examiner finds.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
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  • The restaurant is named for American artist John Singer Sargent, a painter who specialized in portraits and landscapes during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
    Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The book features portraits of puesteros between shots of domestic settings and local landscapes—the little that belongs to them and the vastness that does not.
    Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026

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“Landforms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landforms. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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