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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesa
Noun
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Escarpment is named for the geologic term describing a steep slope that lies at the end of a plateau of earth.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
1 May 2026
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Similarly, the Pistons — winners of 60 games, the third team in franchise history to reach that plateau — entered this postseason planning to announce themselves as contenders.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In the highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter defend their ancestral land from becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of past violence.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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Similarly, crew members also took field trips to such locations as the Kamestastin Impact Crater in Labrador, Canada and the Icelandic highlands.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Pedro Cervantes painted jewellike vistas of New Mexico’s tablelands.—
John P. Murphy,
ARTnews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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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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“Mesa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesa. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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