as in crest
the line formed when two sloping surfaces come together along their topmost edge
pigeons roosting along the ridge of the roof
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Recent Examples of ridge
Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In response, Northern Colorado MedEvac airlifted a group of Rocky Mountain Rescue Group volunteers to a mountain ridge near the accident site.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The rocks formed during the Archean and persisted until they were squeezed out along the ocean ridges more than 2.5 billion years later.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
Verb
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park features 60,000 acres of old-growth forest, roaring waterfalls, Lake Superior shoreline, rivers, trails and ridges.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In response, Northern Colorado MedEvac airlifted a group of Rocky Mountain Rescue Group volunteers to a mountain ridge near the accident site.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridge
Noun
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The iguanas are known for their distinctive casque (helmet-like crest) and long, thin limbs.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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These black-and-white woodpeckers, recognizable for their bright red crest, are large – about the size of a crow.—
Tom Langen,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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After an earnings beat and a blistering 32% pop on July 30, the stock drifted lower for a month — a normal profit-taking after a vertical move.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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This means that if Solar Cycle 25 were stronger or weaker than predicted, the peak month of solar maximum would drift from this August-September 2025 prediction.—
Ryan French,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Just about everything with the Mini Countryman is banking on nostalgia and social cred.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Sep. 2025
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In storage, the concentrated desiccant and pure water are held in tanks, effectively banking cooling potential for later.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While some neighborhoods were good to deliver to, others weren’t, and when people took the good addresses, the rest of us were lumped with the bad ones.—
Jack Hargreaves,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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On impact, the particles clump together, blocking the flow of liquids and ions.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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Studies have shown that both erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to more easily clump — creating clots that can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, damaging blood vessels or triggering a stroke.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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