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Recent Examples of hillock
As the moon shines through dips in the nearby hillock, its light streams into the central circle and down the length of the avenue.
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Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
The entree is a carnivore’s dream: A beef medallion gets pounded thin and layered with Virginia ham and cheese, an indulgence balanced with a hillock of sprightly greens.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
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Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2024
Many of the canals running through the farmland were fortified with low hillocks covered in grass.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Rainfall, delayed and rerouted by craters and hillocks, percolated into the earth rather than flushing sediment into a nearby creek.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
The entree is a carnivore’s dream: A beef medallion gets pounded thin and layered with Virginia ham and cheese, an indulgence balanced with a hillock of sprightly greens.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
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In reality, the slant was just 25 degrees, but even a knoll seems formidable under the strain of psychic baggage.Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
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The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
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Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, Dharamshala is best known internationally as the seat of the Dalai Lama, who has been based there since being exiled from Tibet in 1959.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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San Ysidro Ranch, Santa Barbara, California Tucked away in the Montecito foothills of Santa Barbara, San Ysidro Ranch is the perfect holiday retreat for those seeking luxury and peace with rustic charm.Roger Sands, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Extend your fingers and roll the log of dough toward yourself along the length of your fingers to create knobs.Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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The kitchen gadget has a large knob that’s easy to turn and ergonomic handles that are comfortable to hold.Isabel Garcia, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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The country’s upland areas are covered by a patchwork of teams made up of locals from all walks of life.Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
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Aided by legislation that rewards landowners for increasing the biodiversity of the Welsh uplands, his group has been planting trees — more than 300,000 at this point, including that rowan.Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
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But a lot of young executives also are casting weary glances at the aging eminences who’ve been occupying Hollywood’s C-suites seemingly forever.Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
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Despite being unsure of his faith, the poor man has been saddled by the just-deceased pope with the responsibility of managing the conclave of red-robed eminences who’ll vote on a successor.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were inexplicably abandoned.Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
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These western–North Carolina highlands, largely protected from extensive mining extraction, would protect me and the others who call them home.Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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Great shows are all over From pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter to a mountain of an opera (literally) to a festival devoted to Leonard Cohen, there are a ton of great shows to catch in the Bay Area this weekend.Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The bigger issue is Johnson, who once upon a time was such a promising leading actor, a mountain of a man capable of embodying unexpected vulnerability.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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