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mesa

noun

ˈmā-sə

Definition of mesa

as in plateau

a broad flat area of elevated land a mesa in the Arizona desert

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Recent Examples of mesa Los Alamos, not far from Santa Fe, sits at the foot of Pajarito Mountain in a land of canyons and mesas. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Beginning in the late 1960s, artists abandoned galleries in favour of deserts, salt flats, mesas, and remote terrain, using these surroundings as both setting and material. — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026 Together, Groves and Oppenheimer chose an isolated mesa near Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a secret laboratory—and eventually a secret city—would be built to design the world's first atomic bomb. — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Riders make their way through a mesa area on Tatooine with options to choose three or four branching paths. — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for mesa

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Hovering over the landscape are shiny new transmission towers linked by power cables that stretch along the plateau for as far as the eye can see.

— Anna Coren, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026
In remote ranching outposts across the treeless plateau of Chubut province, life revolves around tending flocks on steppes and shearing sheep in sheds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of plateau

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The film, set in the magnificent highlands of Montenegro’s Sinjajevina plateau, centers on Gara and her 13-year-old daughter Nada.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
The vast Puya de Raimondi forest is on your doorstep, where thousands of giant bromeliads—the largest on the planet—rise like sentinels over the highlands.

— Luke Abrahams, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of highland

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Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name.

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026
Pedro Cervantes painted jewellike vistas of New Mexico’s tablelands.

— John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026

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