cuesta

noun

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  1. cliff
  2. escarpment
  3. bluff
  4. butte
  5. hogback
  6. scarp
  7. precipice
  8. scar
Noun
  • The Rocca di Fregosa, a fortress atop a natural cliff overlooking the Marecchia River valley, dominates the hamlet visually.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In that last story, Holmes and the evil professor wrestle at a cliff’s edge in Switzerland.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of cliff
Noun
  • Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.
    — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
  • The tents are perched on top of escarpment with views of the TK below.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Definition of escarpment
Noun
  • Click here to see more photos of the two bluff-top homes in Hawaii.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Gaasterland said in her candidate statement that her top priorities include utility undergrounding, local control of land use decisions, and removing the train tracks from the bluffs while avoiding a new route that tunnels under Del Mar homes.
    — Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of bluff
Noun
  • The $450 million carbon-neutral library blends seamlessly into the rolling buttes.
    — Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Each summer, runners carry prayers more than 50 miles from the town of Bluff, Utah, to the high country below the buttes, and the White Mesa Ute community beside the monument holds its Bear Dance each year.
    — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of butte
Noun
  • In 1876, Arthur Lakes, a professor at Jarvis Hall college, discovered several dinosaur fossils on the west side of a hogback west of Denver, including the first fossils to be called stegosaurus.
    — Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Views to the east take in Red Rocks Park, the Dakota Ridge hogback, Green Mountain and downtown Denver in the distance.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 May 2026
Definition of hogback
Noun
  • The team used high-resolution topographic data from satellites, aircraft and drones to detect fault scarps, narrow ridges formed when the ground shifts during an earthquake, that were previously hidden under dense forest and glacial deposits.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Definition of scarp
Noun
  • Proposition 40, which would impose the tax on billionaires’ assets, has reached the precipice of nationwide debates over economic inequality and liberal overreach.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • This is Danish-Egyptian filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown, the tale of a housemaid on the precipice of marrying her wealthy, widowed employer.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of precipice
Noun
  • On Sunday, storms brought dangerous flash flooding to the area around the Aspen Acres burn scar.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Alexa Frank thought the small, pink, flaky spot on her nose was an acne scar or eczema, a condition that causes dry, itchy skin.
    — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of scar
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