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Recent Examples of waterfallHiking: This Northern California hike features massive waterfalls and deep swimming holes.—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025 The National Park Service (NPS) closed the Sol Duc Falls area for the Olympic National Park Search and Rescue Team after an 18-year-old man fell over the 50-foot waterfall, the agency wrote in a news release.—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 June 2025 Indeed, Jamaica may elicit mountains and waterfalls, but these days the Caribbean nation is also trying to showcase its cinematic potential and budding film industry.—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 June 2025 The waterfall crew is deliciously classic Atlanta with Porsha, Cynthia, Shamea (who looked beautiful in her two-piece!—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for waterfall
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cascade
Noun
The massive park is one of the most popular in Tennessee for its picturesque cascades, gorges, and trails.
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Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the mesmerizing waterfall owned by the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe cascades 268 feet over granite cliffs (far higher than Niagara Falls), attracting more visitors than anywhere else in the state other than majestic Mount Rainier.
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