tor

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Noun
  • No eyes, no nose, just a butte with shadows.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Scenic drive through Monument Valley Located in northern Arizona, Monument Valley is a collection of crimson and orange mesas and sandstone buttes maintained by Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation.
    Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Greenwood State Beach unfolds below the bluff, a crescent of sand often empty but for driftwood piles and the occasional bonfire ring.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That kind of in-the-moment bluff is what makes Parvati Shallow a scary, all-time great player.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 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
  • But that very week also gives evidence to how fragile the Faroes are; under these extreme weather conditions, scars in nature heal slowly, if ever.
    Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But the scars from that era are still very much present in society, and the son, Im Dong-hwan, represents the youth of today who are trying to come to terms with that generational complexity and its legacy.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Experts have told Newsweek that the difficulties for both jobseekers—white and especially Black—should be viewed against the backdrop of a wider deterioration on the overall economic outlook, now on the precipice of a major downturn according to certain economists.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The fire, started by an Orange County Public Works crew working with heavy machinery in Trabuco Canyon on a hot summer day, had made its way into Riverside County and was on the precipice of destroying one of the rare remaining rural communities in the area.
    Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of years ago, the 52,000-plus acres now known as Mesa Verde National Park were home to the Ancestral Pueblo People, who built a series of sophisticated stone dwellings in the cliffs here.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In this sequel to The Ice Road that trades Canadian ice flats for cliff-edge drop-offs and hairpin passes, Neeson’s grieving character Mike McCann heads to the Himalayas to scatter his brother’s ashes.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All these people took advantage of the sheep population, but a remnant of the herd remained among the rocky crags of the San Andres, where grass is sparse and water rare.
    Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • These shoes keep me comfortable all day, even when rock hopping and scrambling to get to the crag.
    Mary Beth Skylis, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The farther away from a scarp, the lesser the hazard.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That is a clear fingerprint of an earthquake, one that, according to the rounding and wear and sloping of the scarp, occurred about 2.6 million years ago.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 July 2025
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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