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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tor
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The South Dakota park features over 240,000 acres of rugged spires, streaky buttes, and vast fossil beds.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2026 -
The kitchen turns out whimsical bar food, like Mexican pizza, and wall art depicts the buttes and cacti of the Seussian desert.—
Chris Malloy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The bluff-top mansion is located in the exclusive seaside town of Westerly, Rhode Island.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
21 May 2026
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Now, this might be bluff, might be the Iranians are trying to bluff Trump down.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
Noun
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Two years later, Jesse, now 8, has a six-inch scar across his chest from the incident.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
24 May 2026
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But while in football that is generally viewed as a good thing, Tuchel and his coaching staff are also conscious that there are downsides that come with having been there and done it before, including scars from previous tournaments.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Noun
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But unlike how the last two seasons ended, this defeat doesn’t feel like the precipice of something greater.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
16 May 2026
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Horse riding as a whole may be on the precipice of explosive popularity.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
7 May 2026
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Young players may have reasonable upside, while players in their 30s are at risk of falling off the cliff.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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With rugged cliffs rising above the Arkansas River, the canyon is a picturesque place for rafting, fishing, and hiking.—
John Hickenlooper,
Denver Post,
18 May 2026
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In front of a row of concrete markers tracing the border with Peru, two sandy-yellow Chilean military excavators crawl along a deep trench, digging three metres down before swinging sharply to dump bucketloads of earth into a rising embankment.—
John Bartlett,
NPR,
23 May 2026
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The car tumbled down an embankment into thick foliage, pictures posted on social media by Millers Creek Fire Department showed.—
Joe Marusak
May 16,
Charlotte Observer,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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As the sun dropped and the temperature fell, Scarabeo Roches Noires emerged on the horizon, a small cluster of white tents perched on a rocky escarpment.—
Fergus Scholes,
TheWeek,
30 Jan. 2026
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Prepare to be awestruck during your first view of Crater Lake, a massive cobalt waterway flanked by a dome of steep crag.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2026
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That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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