tor

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Noun
  • Enchantment's accommodations include casitas and suites, with designs and decor inspired by the Southwest desert landscape and views of Sedona's red rock buttes.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Courses are high-quality desert golf with lots of elevation changes, exposed rocks, and a few dramatic signature holes, most famously the third on the Mountain course, a short par-three with a tee on a cliff and the green atop a rocky butte.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To its credit, her fan base has been calling her bluff in response.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Back in Jasper, take Highway 74 through Ponca and Compton, past elk herds, peekaboo river views, and dozens of waterfalls and bluff-top overlooks.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That loop yields a two-mile hike with 300 feet of climbing, not counting the short spur trail up to the hogback.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Its naked carbon-fiber body bears the scuffs and scars of life as a development hack, but its steroidal wheelarches, extendable rear spoiler, and brutal diffuser deliver an emphatic statement of intent.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Those living in areas near the recent burn scars or in areas prone to flooding should listen to local authorities and be prepared to take action should flooding develop.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Panahi is more concerned with preserving this moment in time, this potential precipice of change, for Iran and for all of us.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Toews spent his night on the precipice of great plays.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • From the Call of the Canyon parking area in Oak Creek Canyon, hikers cross a shaggy meadow, then follow the creek into verdant forests beneath high cliffs.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Close to 600 appearances were made in a playing career that spanned 20 years, but a fall from the cliff edge was something Baker was not prepared for.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The park’s Big Badlands Overlook peers east, where the moon will climb above a sea of striated crag.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The trail also leads to access points for crags with more than 350 individual routes frequented by Denver-area climbers, and up toward mountaintophomes on Conifer Mountain, just outside the park.
    Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The farther away from a scarp, the lesser the hazard.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That is a clear fingerprint of an earthquake, one that, according to the rounding and wear and sloping of the scarp, occurred about 2.6 million years ago.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 July 2025
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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