mesa
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Under the veil of the Manhattan Project, this remote mesa became the site of a profound scientific pivot that ended a world war and ushered in the nuclear age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Calderon and Murphey are dismayed by dirt bike tracks and moguls made of mud flecked with seashells that mar the mesa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
It also says the fire sparked by its power line spread quickly because it was on top of a flat mesa, allowing the fire to spread along the ground, and ignited nearby vegetation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
I scan the data from Fly’s flight around the strange-looking rock formation with the mesa that has the tunnel-like opening.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Washington, Utah, located just southwest of Zion National Park, is surrounded by cinematic mesas and has long been a hub for exploring the natural wonders of the American west.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
My roughly 60-mile section was marked by sienna-hued mesas and buttes, and cornflower-blue skies.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
The central summit area is marked by several elevated mesas forming an arc, reaching a regional high and sloping downhill away from the summit area.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
It included relocating 350,000 cubic yards of soil that the golf course developers had taken from nearby mesas and pushed atop wetlands to create the course decades ago.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
He tried to determine when it had been built, but except for the sagging screen all around the long porch, the house was like the mesas around it: years had little relation to it.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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