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Trinidad State Beach This beach runs along the western shore of this picturesque oceanside village, starting just north of Trinidad Head, a rocky promontory that shelters Trinidad Harbor and offers 360-degree coastal views along a 1.3-mile trail loop.
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
Agate Beach, Sue-meg State Park This long, narrow beach stretches north from the dramatic, lushly forested promontory that makes up Sue-meg State Park, north of Trinidad.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
The Gargano This picturesque promontory on Puglia’s northernmost coastline is dominated by Gargano National Park, where the scenery changes from beaches to mountains in just a few miles.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2024
Boundary Cone is a geologic promontory — a high point of land — near the Black Mountains in Mohave County.
—Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
Agate Beach, Sue-meg State Park This long, narrow beach stretches north from the dramatic, lushly forested promontory that makes up Sue-meg State Park, north of Trinidad.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
The Gargano This picturesque promontory on Puglia’s northernmost coastline is dominated by Gargano National Park, where the scenery changes from beaches to mountains in just a few miles.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2024
Boundary Cone is a geologic promontory — a high point of land — near the Black Mountains in Mohave County.
—Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promontory
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On The Water Apart from that sense of solitude, a major part of the appeal is clearly the location: on a peninsula with one side fronting the calm, pure turquoise water of the Caicos Bank; the other side, the rolling waves of the Atlantic in varying shades of blue.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Those three words were put on a bus that toured the state, visiting fans from the Motor City to the tip of the lower peninsula.—
Larry Lage,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Take for instance the ravishing red cape top that swung on the matching carpet.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
8 Feb. 2025
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Randi Mahomes Randi Mahomes paid homage to her son Patrick Mahomes’ team wearing a sleeveless red dress with a cape element to the NFL Honors on Thursday.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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Some interlopers even made the treacherous journey around the rocky headland that flanks the resort’s half-moon bay to steal onto set.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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Also, as with the previous regional projects, so far there is no plan to include retention devices such as the artificial headlands and reef proposed in Oceanside.—
Philip Diehl,
The Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2024
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At some point, funding delays could really start to hit the patients and families that rely on these community centers.—
Selena Simmons-Duffin,
NPR,
8 Feb. 2025
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The governor’s office did not respond to this point.—
Adam Crafton,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Promontory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promontory. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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