mesa
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The area around the mesa is rugged, quiet and vast, and water has to be hauled in.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024
Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
Archival footage of the park’s 1971 inauguration shows the first lady disturbed by fence on the mesa and asking that it be taken down so she could hug and shake hands with people in Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023
One orphan well scheduled to be plugged rests on an arid mesa in Glen Canyon National Recreational Area in Utah.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The wind blew strong as we climbed the trail, cover- ing the mesa with sand that sifted around our legs and shut out the sky.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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