timberline
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State Parks and Recreation Director Cody Schulz said the campground will be built on former agricultural land on the gorge’s timberline.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
The portrait of Sessions is of a man for whom merely ordering lunch seems to be above the timberline of his intellect and curiosity.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2019
Their marriage has “reached the timberline of their affection,” but they don’t notice yet.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015
I’ve stood at timberline on a volcano that seems made of nothing but rubble and hydrothermally altered rock.
From Scientific American • Dec. 6, 2012
Squinting against the gray glare and against the cold and by now steady wind that made his eyes water, he searched the opposite timberline for the gunman, but could see nothing.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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