Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tor
Noun
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Hotel Yellowstone sits on a butte that overlooks the mountain range and each of the property’s 36 suites are privately situated in clusters across the four-acre property.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2024 -
With 22 national parks and monuments to its name, Arizona boasts some of the most astonishing landscapes in the country, from the Grand Canyon to the towering buttes of Monument Valley and the undulating rock formations of the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.—
Jackie Burrell,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Its bluffs and beaches became a vast cemetery, volcanic ash and black sand burying the dead.—
Hannah Beech,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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No one disputes that the bluff and beach closures to accommodate the presence and natural life activities of the pinniped constrain unlimited human presence.—
Bill Tippets,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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Many of the selections underscore the social stresses and inequalities of the growing metropolis, the scars left by the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, and the human costs of Argentina’s recurrent economic crises.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Older Brazilians carry the scars, in many cases literal ones, of their fight against dictatorship.—
Quico Toro,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Guthrie says her mom's approval matters still, to this day, and at first, her mom was hesitant about the book, as perhaps any parent would be when their child stands on the precipice of something big and a little bit scary.—
Alex Ross,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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Its author, the writer and urban historian Jonathan Tarleton, documents the high-stakes sagas of two Mitchell-Lama developments on the precipice of making this decision.—
John Surico,
Curbed,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Even Baby boomers are backing off alcohol a bit, with seltzers/sparkling up 13% and fruit juices edging up 1%, as beer drops 7%, spirits slide 12%, wine plummets 15%, and soft drinks fall off the cliff by 16%.—
Louis Biscotti,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The value of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly called $TRUMP, has fallen off a cliff – and its investors have lost around $12 billion.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Most of my climbing took place at Boulder’s local crags, or more often than not, at the climbing gym, with occasional trips to far away destinations.—
Lynn Hill,
Outside Online,
17 Feb. 2025
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Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with the cultural capital of Edo (now Tokyo).—
Hannah Walhout,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Oct. 2024
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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