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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plateaus
Noun
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Beyond cost, Purple Line development will face a high degree of difficulty because of the topography of mesas and valleys.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025 -
Within minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.—
Cari Shane,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Napo is home to small communities of Kichwa people, whose ancestors came down from the Andean highlands centuries ago.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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The shallow freshwater coursed lazily among the sawgrass, the water stretching from the Atlantic Coastal Ridge to the east to the highlands of what is now part of the Big Cypress National Preserve to the west.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Plateaus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plateaus. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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