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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tor
Noun
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Bring a tent and find a primitive site either in the prairie at the base of the buttes or tucked into the junipers.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
4 Mar. 2025 -
These pillars are denser clumps of gas and dust that the outflows haven't yet managed to erode, like how the towering buttes in the western United States have remained resolute to wind and rain erosion.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The property has a private tramway to transport guests 300 feet almost straight down the bluff from the main house at 9044 La Jolla Shores Lane.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
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Fifteen years after her husband’s drowning in the nearby bay, Tressilian’s days are spent in a cranky routine: grumbling over the obscene resort stationed on the opposite bluff, reading London’s gossip columns, and summoning the household help with the insistent ringing of a bedroom call bell.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.—
Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
8 June 2024
Noun
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But amid the fanfare of parades, fireworks and airshows, a long-standing debate over what to call the holiday continues, a subtle acknowledgment of the lingering scars of a contentious war.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Damn right, he’s got the blues… and the scars to show for it.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025
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But the Gunners’ routing of Ipswich meant the club had to make do with a win, putting them on the precipice of glory.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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At the precipice of a new chapter in her career, Adell is loving every minute of it.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Essence,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Instead, while City have not merely dipped but fallen off a cliff, Arsenal are set to finish a distant second to a team in Liverpool who have signed just one player all season — Federico Chiesa, who has barely played.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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There’s a shot of Elizabeth standing on a cliff, staring into a vast expanse as Marianelli’s score swells.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Slice and Dice is a 5.12 in Indian Creek on the Way Rambo crag.—
Maya Silver,
Outside Online,
12 Feb. 2025
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Mount Lemmon, the tallest peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is a premier climbing destination with more than 2,700 routes ranging from beginner-friendly crags to expert-level ascents.—
Visit Tucson,
AFAR Media,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Oct. 2024
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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