Thesaurus results for MESA

mesa

noun

ˈmā-sə

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as in plateau

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

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Recent Examples of mesa Think again, as the California Zephyr, the longest route in America crosses through seven states, carving up Colorado’s canyons, then passing into Utah where the sun ignites mesas into flaming towers of rock. —

Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026 Petit Jean Mountain is the name commonly given to the large mesa on the south bank of the Arkansas River in Conway County. —

Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2025 Continue west to Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City crowning a 367-foot-tall mesa. —

Kit Bernardi, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 Instead, tribal members have relied on a single power line that runs roughly 30 miles east and west across high desert punctuated by three distinctive mesas, home to 12 distinct villages, including some of the oldest inhabited communities in the United States. —

Nate Perez, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mesa

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Connor has sailed past 30 goals for the eighth time in his career and is two goals away from reaching the 40-goal plateau for the second time.

— Murat Ates, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Sensor tech is on a plateau and has been for years, so the X-T30 III is at parity with other recent APS-C cameras, including the Z50II and EOS R10.

— Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026