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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 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 Latinos have always been an intrinsic feature of the Western Slope’s socioeconomic landscape, as ubiquitous as the area’s mountains, mesas and canyons. — Ernesto Sagás, The Conversation, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for mesa

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China is no stranger to powerful quakes, especially in southwestern parts of the country where the Eurasian tectonic plate meets the Indian plate, a dramatic collision that creates the mighty Himalayas and the vast Tibetan plateau.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Scott and Stauring founded the humanitarian group iACT largely to respond to the crisis in Darfur, a semi-desert plateau in western Sudan that has known nothing but war this century.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of plateau

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Even if tourism areas are operating as usual, communities near the fires in the mountain highlands are directly affected.

— Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026
After posting a picture on a random rock in the Turkish highlands on Instagram, Salah has transformed the spot into a tourist attraction, with droves of fans making the pilgrimage.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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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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