tor

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Noun
  • These pillars are denser clumps of gas and dust that the outflows haven't yet managed to erode, like how the towering buttes in the western United States have remained resolute to wind and rain erosion.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The new age movement brought flocks of people to its buttes, canyons and trails.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The trail ends with views from a bluff overlooking the Chesapeake Bay.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
  • It’s situated right on an oceanfront bluff on the island of Antigua in the country Antigua and Barbuda.
    Robin Raven, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 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
  • Countless Black women, like Justice, live with the long-term mental and physical scars of pregnancy and birth.
    Essence, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The 44-year-old actress and breast cancer survivor opened up about her scars being visible during intimate scenes, while promoting their new Apple TV+ drama series Your Friends and Neighbors.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Shortstop Bo Bichette is also on the precipice of free agency, and with an upgrade needed over Ernie Clement and Will Wagner at third base, the team has to replace the left side of the infield.
    Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Yet with Iran's uranium enrichment already on the precipice of becoming weapons-grade, the Iranian nuclear program is likely too far along to be set back through military actions alone.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The burial chamber was uncovered at the base of a desert cliff almost 23 feet beneath Abydos, one of Egypt’s oldest cities about 300 miles south of Cairo and roughly six miles from the Nile River.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Researchers uncovered the tomb at the mountain, at the base of a high desert cliff where strong winds carry gusts of sand.
    Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Slice and Dice is a 5.12 in Indian Creek on the Way Rambo crag.
    Maya Silver, Outside Online, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Mount Lemmon, the tallest peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is a premier climbing destination with more than 2,700 routes ranging from beginner-friendly crags to expert-level ascents.
    Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 24 Apr. 2025.

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