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Recent Examples of topography
The most famous of its coastal towns may be places like Wilmington and the Outer Banks barrier islands located off the mainland’s eastern edge, but there are dozens of other waterfront towns carved into the Tar Heel State’s topography.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Built specifically for mapping underwater topography in rivers, ponds and coastal areas, the Navigator is changing the game for environmental monitoring.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Few other major population centers directly abut such dramatic topography.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
At the moon’s poles, even small variations in topography can make for significant differences in surface temperature—as demonstrated neatly by Chandrayaan-3’s landing site measurements.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Built specifically for mapping underwater topography in rivers, ponds and coastal areas, the Navigator is changing the game for environmental monitoring.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Few other major population centers directly abut such dramatic topography.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
At the moon’s poles, even small variations in topography can make for significant differences in surface temperature—as demonstrated neatly by Chandrayaan-3’s landing site measurements.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topography
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The Beverly Center, with its futuristic, Pompidou-style escalator on the outside, was at least as important in my childhood geography as the Hollywood sign.—
Chris Wallace,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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In a world of ever-expanding and changing product portfolios, new service lines, new customers and new geographies, keeping up with the creation of knowledge to help customers help themselves, empower agents and enable AI agents is no small task.—
Adrian Swinscoe,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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New plants for the landscape might include bromeliads, orchids and other foliage plants. 30.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2025
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As the draft enters its final day, Sanders has yet to be picked causing previous pre-draft narratives to resurface throughout the NFL media landscape.—
Kambui Bomani,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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There’s none of the impulsive lightness of handheld camerawork; even in fervent motion, the film’s images feel tethered to the ground, deeply rooted in terrain and locale, in physical and intimate histories.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Consider the shoes Photo: Getty Images A dressy beach shoe is certainly a tricky sartorial challenge, given you will likely be walking on sandy terrain.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Topography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topography. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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