scarped

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scarped
Adjective
  • For decades, the Algarve has been beloved for its endless sunny days and dramatic coastlines with its picturesque beaches, craggy cliffs, and hidden caves.
    Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Bloody battles raged throughout the fall of 1863 along the banks of the Tennessee River, in pastoral valleys, and on the flanks of Lookout Mountain, a long, craggy ridge overlooking the city.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Interstate travel, especially through mountainous terrain, may be delayed due to slick roads and snow squalls.
    Sirena Bergman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This mountainous region is known for its lush forests, lakes and valleys – and for being a hotspot for this year’s deadly bear attacks in Japan.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Normally, as storms begin to interact with land—particularly with hilly terrain such as that of Jamaica—friction starts to disrupt and weaken them.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Its open, hilly terrain has one of the highest densities of tigers on the subcontinent.
    Marion Miller, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Best Early Black Friday Target Kitchen Deals The sale brings steep discounts to top kitchen brands like Ninja, Keurig, and KitchenAid.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • His mental health went into a steep decline.
    Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, German manufacturing orders have come to a standstill amid tariff uncertainty, even outpacing the precipitous decline experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, narrowly avoiding a recession.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Lack and his colleagues’ investigations into why, which played out over the next 15 years, led to last month’s remarkable finding that the incidence of peanut allergies in the US – after a precipitous rise – appeared to have fallen dramatically.
    Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) provides thrust vectoring capability for X-BAT’s vertical takeoff and landing maneuverability.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Located in its app, the Watch tab now features a feed of vertical video stories, though they are editorially curated rather than algorithmically fed, at least for now.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Scarped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarped. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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