escarpment
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When warm air from the Gulf rushes up the escarpment, it condenses and can dump a lot of moisture.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
The site's location on the lip of a south-facing escarpment in the middle of Somerset was carefully chosen.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025
A second engraving, found in 2015 during a survey of the Jebel az-Zilliyat escarpment in Saudi Arabia, is inscribed on a sandstone boulder more than three meters wide and two meters high.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
“Everyone had work, and children stayed here instead of going abroad,” Mr. Bulkhak said, gesturing at the now mostly empty village from an escarpment overlooking the valley.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2022
We stand on the escarpment for a long time, staring up at the cloud through which Frightful sped to freedom.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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