as in geography
the physical features of a region as a whole a map of the topography of the coastline shows a significant loss of wetlands

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Recent Examples of topography The parameters were created by the developer, the fire authority and a third-party fire behavior analyst who examined wind patterns, topography and fire history. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025 The players then wander over to chip and putt around an animatronic green, which can be rotated through 360 degrees and its topography manipulated by hundreds of hydraulic jacks beneath the surface. Don Riddell, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025 But its topography is amazingly varied: forests, deserts, lakes, mountains, sun, rain, snow. The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025 Predicting the weather on Mount Washington during transition seasons is famously tricky due to the topography and the swirling weather along the east coast. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for topography
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Noun
  • The Beverly Center, with its futuristic, Pompidou-style escalator on the outside, was at least as important in my childhood geography as the Hollywood sign.
    Chris Wallace, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
  • In a world of ever-expanding and changing product portfolios, new service lines, new customers and new geographies, keeping up with the creation of knowledge to help customers help themselves, empower agents and enable AI agents is no small task.
    Adrian Swinscoe, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • New plants for the landscape might include bromeliads, orchids and other foliage plants. 30.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
  • As the draft enters its final day, Sanders has yet to be picked causing previous pre-draft narratives to resurface throughout the NFL media landscape.
    Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • There’s none of the impulsive lightness of handheld camerawork; even in fervent motion, the film’s images feel tethered to the ground, deeply rooted in terrain and locale, in physical and intimate histories.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Consider the shoes Photo: Getty Images A dressy beach shoe is certainly a tricky sartorial challenge, given you will likely be walking on sandy terrain.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Topography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topography. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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