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Like the mesas of Monument Valley, these narrative strands are also immediately recognizable.
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
Double the distance for an out-and-back route that showcases the park’s most dramatic features: towering spires, vast mesas, and delicate hoodoos.
—Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2024
The trail remains level until brushing past Porter Tank and then ascends a low mesa.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Sky Village at Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch
Cortez, Colorado
Hidden among the mesas and grassy valleys of the arid Colorado Plateau lies one of my favorite Milky Way–watching lookouts on the continent: Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2024
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Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
Double the distance for an out-and-back route that showcases the park’s most dramatic features: towering spires, vast mesas, and delicate hoodoos.
—Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2024
The trail remains level until brushing past Porter Tank and then ascends a low mesa.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Sky Village at Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch
Cortez, Colorado
Hidden among the mesas and grassy valleys of the arid Colorado Plateau lies one of my favorite Milky Way–watching lookouts on the continent: Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesa
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Crochet was one of 11 hurlers to surpass the 200-strikeout plateau, whiffing 209 hitters in 146 innings.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Since then it’s been an emotional roller coaster for Democrats, who saw Harris surge only to plateau in the final month of the campaign.Amie Parnes, The Hill, 4 Nov. 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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It's located on the Cumberland Plateau — a 450-mile tableland that covers much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, with soaring sandstone walls, large boulders, and dramatic overhangs.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023
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Schuerman Mountain rises in west Sedona, a high tableland that offers commanding views of gaudier formations.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
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“Mesa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesa. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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