as in crest
the line formed when two sloping surfaces come together along their topmost edge
pigeons roosting along the ridge of the roof
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Recent Examples of ridge
Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
From the top of the ridge, where the wolves are believed to make their den, there’s a commanding view of Prather Ranch to the east and of another ranch, Table Rock, to the west.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Noun
Strange, sticky shapes appear as the bacteria reassemble into ridges and depressions that warp and buckle, almost as if the collective is breathing.
—Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
From the top of the ridge, where the wolves are believed to make their den, there’s a commanding view of Prather Ranch to the east and of another ranch, Table Rock, to the west.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
The atmospheric setup here is fairly complex, with the region just on the edge of high pressure ridging that will help keep skies clear.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridge
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Directly across the valley from me was a steep and narrow finger ridge that had long ago been planted in pine trees all the way down its crest; from the ridge top to where the creek trickled by at its base.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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Migrating smolts swim downriver into a reservoir, hurtle over rapids and crest two dams before finally reaching the Baltic Sea.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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Williams had apparently drifted across an invisible whites-only line that the man who killed him was enforcing.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted as far as the Midwest and Northeast in 2023, pushing air quality into unhealthy ranges.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Wall Street was banking on a revival in the initial public offering market with President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but the president’s sweeping tariff proposals led several companies to delay their offerings.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2025
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As this author recently revealed in The Guardian newspaper, the filings show that Dominion banked a blockbuster $114.8 million (£89.1 million) reimbursement which is understood to be the largest payment to a single movie since the U.K. introduced its film fiscal incentive scheme in 2007.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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As time went on, lumping the MCU TV and movies into the same pipeline continued to show more strain — and may have led to the departure of longtime MCU production executive Victoria Alonso.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2025
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If one rather pertinent piece of information is banned from credit reports, those for whom a complete credit report would enhance their capacity to borrow are potentially lumped in with those for whom a full credit report would expose a truth that the CFPB is trying to obscure.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Her ’60s clumped lashes and coiffed hair, for example, are still highly referenced today.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
25 Mar. 2025
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Last month, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh revealed a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein in the brain a decade in advance of them appearing prominently in brain scans as a cause of Alzheimer's.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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