topography
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“Hill-climbing” is the term that is suddenly on lips across Silicon Valley, for reasons that have nothing to do with San Francisco’s dramatic topography or techies’ love of hiking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The OS first started mapping Britain 230 years ago and has since documented the changes in the country's topography.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The automated program uses weather observations, forecast data, fuel and vegetation conditions, topography, location data, and information on available resources.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Yet it was under precisely these conditions that anatomists produced the observations that became the foundation of classical anatomical topography.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
A knife, rope, PowerBars, water bottle, compass, first aid kit, a topographical map, my sketchpad, a hardcover novel, and a book Leo gave me on topography.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It takes a thoroughly empirical approach to California’s four seasons and their manifestation across its myriad topographies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
University of Washington scientists who combined sea-level projections with topographies along Washington’s coast found some parts of Seattle and other areas will be permanently underwater if worst-case projections are realized.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 9, 2024
“I just play the songs the best I can, inspired by the seasons and the topographies and regions, and, occasionally, by sociological elements, and try to improve as a player over time.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Stories of danger, lost civilizations, exploration, unusual flora and fauna, newly discovered topographies, ships lost at sea.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2020
A third advantage of the Fertile Crescent’s Mediterranean zone is that it provides a wide range of altitudes and topographies within a short distance.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The Things They Carried
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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The United States
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