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Less than an hour later, Adams and Bailey were leading us all across a mesa top to witness the moment that sunlight hit Fajada Butte.
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
The park’s trails lead across red rock cliffs, piñon-juniper woodlands, and high-desert mesas with panoramic views in every direction that glow gold and orange at sunrise or sunset.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Scans of the long, flat mesa on the property suggest that there’s an immense, unknown, fragmented thing inside.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 30 June 2025
On the mesa, flames leaped from one 4,000-square-foot home to the next.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
The park’s trails lead across red rock cliffs, piñon-juniper woodlands, and high-desert mesas with panoramic views in every direction that glow gold and orange at sunrise or sunset.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Scans of the long, flat mesa on the property suggest that there’s an immense, unknown, fragmented thing inside.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 30 June 2025
On the mesa, flames leaped from one 4,000-square-foot home to the next.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesa
Noun
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Research on corporate lifecycles shows that organizations clinging to founder-centric decision-making often plateau or decline after year 15, regardless of industry.—
Ken Polk,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Rising out of the frozen plateau is the South Pole Telescope, a key tool for radio astronomy.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Set in the country's highlands, La Ruta de Las Flores is a scenic drive that connects several villages, and bursts to life when the coffee fields lining it come into full bloom.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The final section may prove anticlimactic for some, given the fleeting images captured of elephants believed to have inhabited the highlands for 5,000 years.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The tableland was formed by volcanic eruptions about 700,000 years ago, according to the Bishop Chamber of Commerce and Information Center.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacramento Bee,
11 Mar. 2025
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It's located on the Cumberland Plateau — a 450-mile tableland that covers much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, with soaring sandstone walls, large boulders, and dramatic overhangs.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
22 July 2023
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“Mesa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesa. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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