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The rocky outcropping is on the Whitaker Point Trail, a three-mile roundtrip hike.
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The same layer of black clay showed up all around in the world: in rock outcroppings in Italy and New Zealand, and in samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
From Jack’s, guests can embark on a two-night foray into the vast Makgadikgadi Pans in a convoy of ATVs before making camp on Kubu Island, an outcropping of granite that rises from the arid plain.
—Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2025
Laguna Beach has an ideal habitat for kelp forests with coves that have steeper terrain and rocky outcroppings where kelp can anchor and grow.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The same layer of black clay showed up all around in the world: in rock outcroppings in Italy and New Zealand, and in samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
From Jack’s, guests can embark on a two-night foray into the vast Makgadikgadi Pans in a convoy of ATVs before making camp on Kubu Island, an outcropping of granite that rises from the arid plain.
—Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2025
Laguna Beach has an ideal habitat for kelp forests with coves that have steeper terrain and rocky outcroppings where kelp can anchor and grow.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for outcropping
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“Outcropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcropping. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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outcropping
noun
out·crop·ping
ˈȧut-ˌkrä-piŋ 
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