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Recent Examples of waterfall
The story claims a heartsick Noccalula threw herself over the waterfall instead of forsaking her true love by being forced to marry another.
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Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Gantner guides pro skier and friend Jake Hopfinger to secluded Lake Superior waterfalls and then deeper into the Hiawatha National Forest, which draws a fraction of the crowds of comparable destinations like Acadia National Park, with equally dynamic shorelines.
—Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
An avalanche of water descended through cracks in the ceiling of Brooklyn's Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street station, forming pseudo waterfalls, according to Storyful.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
The Great Smoky Mountains are synonymous with waterfalls, verdant valleys, and old-growth forests that produce the range’s signature blue-gray haze.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
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Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
Gantner guides pro skier and friend Jake Hopfinger to secluded Lake Superior waterfalls and then deeper into the Hiawatha National Forest, which draws a fraction of the crowds of comparable destinations like Acadia National Park, with equally dynamic shorelines.
—Outside, 4 Nov. 2025
An avalanche of water descended through cracks in the ceiling of Brooklyn's Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street station, forming pseudo waterfalls, according to Storyful.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
The Great Smoky Mountains are synonymous with waterfalls, verdant valleys, and old-growth forests that produce the range’s signature blue-gray haze.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waterfall
cascade
Noun
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Irimpen’s research at Tulane helps pick apart these cascades.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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The town of about 600 sits at the northern foothills of the Smoky Mountains and offers hiking, caverns and Silver Falls, the tallest subterranean cascade in the eastern United States, according to World Atlas.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Waterfall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waterfall. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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