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promontory

[prom-uhn-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈprɒm ənˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Most of the displaced are now sardined in the city’s quaint Old Quarter, which lies on a promontory jutting out of Tyre’s northernmost tip and is excluded from the evacuation order.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The city occupies a promontory overlooking the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan and was first recorded in the early 2000s.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

A Turkish sponge diver in 1982 first reported spotting “metal biscuits with ears” off a rocky promontory known as Uluburun.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

He swung the trident in his massive hands and in one shock from top to bottom split that promontory, toppling into the sea the fragment where the great fool sat.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer