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
David Caraccio
april 4, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Its images of craters, ridges and ancient lava flows on the lunar surface could help scientists better understand how the moon — and the solar system — formed.
—Tom Costello, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 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
The storybook entrance ends at a brick motor court in front of his French countryside residence perched on a ridge overlooking the North Fork of the American River and Folsom Lake.
—David Caraccio
april 4, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Its images of craters, ridges and ancient lava flows on the lunar surface could help scientists better understand how the moon — and the solar system — formed.
—Tom Costello, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
The rocks formed during the Archean and persisted until they were squeezed out along the ocean ridges more than 2.5 billion years later.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 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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These licenses give Fanatics/Topps the rights to use the intellectual property of the respective soccer federations — their names, logos, crests that appear on uniforms and uniform designs — on trading cards and stickers.—
Larry Holder,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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The logo was created in the style of Japanese family crests, with quatrefoils embellishments and stylized flowers.—
Brandon Kaipo Moningka,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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New Orleans is one of those rare cities that announces itself immediately — through the smell of powdered sugar drifting from a café, the sound of a trumpet warming up on a street corner, the sight of iron-lace balconies draped over cobblestone sidewalks.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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The courtyard of Frozen Music—a bespoke stone atelier outside Jaipur, India—lives up to the tranquility of its name, with a burbling fountain and birdsong drifting through banyan trees at dusk.—
Sarah Medford,
Architectural Digest,
8 Apr. 2026
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McCollum took an inbounds pass near the free-throw line and took two dribbles before launching a shot that banked in.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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The ball banked off the backboard and into the basket as the buzzer sounded.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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The entire logic of the exhibition—with science and art, fresh names and familiar ones, lumped together—is here in miniature.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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When the alt-rock revolution began just a few years later, Journey were lumped together with REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Foreigner as fossils from a bygone corporate rock era, and that seemed unlikely to change.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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Social relationships here clump around two primary groups, named the Central and Western clusters.—
Jason P. Dinh,
Scientific American,
9 Apr. 2026
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Research found that regularly eating too much saturated fat increased the tendency of LDL particles to clump together.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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