tor

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Noun
  • Additionally, the applicants aim to honor the sacred and historical significance of the buttes to Native American history and mythology.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Comprising nearly 463,000 acres of private and leased public land centered on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, the American Prairie reserve is decidedly un-tropical, a rolling shortgrass prairie that stretches out to the horizon, punctuated by smatterings of trees and rocky buttes.
    Adam Roy, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Though the California ground squirrel is native to the area, its burrowing can contribute to coastal erosion, especially along the bluffs above Pacific Coast Highway.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Based on their clothing, people likely gathered after church on a Sunday and posed on these bluffs above the once free-flowing White River.
    Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024
Noun
  • Shaved her head, grappled with surgery scars and bald spots.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 7 May 2025
  • Overall rejuvenation is the goal, with issues like fine lines, early-stage sagging, large pores or acne scars being targeted.
    Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Set at an all-boys water polo summer camp, The Plague is on the precipice of horror, but this is no Friday the 13th.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 May 2025
  • After requiring 48 pitches to get his first six outs, Gordon threw just 22 to collect the next six, stabilizing a start that seemed on the precipice of a spiral.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • But innovation is paired with complexity as regulatory systems lag and organizations grapple with tariffs, patent cliffs, M&As and global competition.
    Tonushree Mondal, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Even with the latest turnaround, U.S. consumers may still see some empty shelves in the coming weeks as the supply chain falls off the cliff.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • There are three crags, and the plan is to develop one at a time, says J.D. Borgeson, the coalition's treasurer.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2025
  • Ultimately, the Clear Creek crags would only flirt with the wildfire.
    Hannah Provost, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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