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Recent Examples of hillock
Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
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The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
From just over a nearby hillock, a howl floated back.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
With the Sayre’s prime setting on a hillock, guests have a clear view of the intact former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces a few miles away.
—John Oseid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
From just over a nearby hillock, a howl floated back.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
With the Sayre’s prime setting on a hillock, guests have a clear view of the intact former Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces a few miles away.
—John Oseid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
Noun
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All the intricate meetings and rolling knolls, all the reliable critiques of the kids today, have left this former student in the ranking spirit.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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One of the stalking animals dashed from behind a knoll about 30 feet from the caribou, grabbed the animal’s flank, and hung on.—
Frank Glaser,
Outdoor Life,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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Its hummock was part of a wetland spiked with tamarack saplings and carpeted with wild cranberries.—
Paul A. Smith,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2022
Noun
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The play subverts itself, never allowing an audience to gain a commanding foothill, even at the end when (suffice it to say) the watchers become the watched.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Cucumbers were first cultivated in the Himalayan foothills of the Indian peninsula over 3000 years ago.—
Andrés Muedano,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Swap out old knobs and handles for brass ones to add a sophisticated, elegant touch.—
Farima Ferguson,
The Spruce,
28 Apr. 2026
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In older homes, Reiner warns that outdated materials like aluminum or knob-and-tube wiring can be fire hazards, too, and may even prevent a home from being insured or financed.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Coral barrier reefs protect beaches and uplands.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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The National Park Service (NPS) explains that Grand Canyon National Park is located entirely within the state of Arizona and encompasses 278 miles of the Colorado River and its surrounding uplands.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Many pop stars mellow into stately eminence in middle age, as Madonna (temporarily) did in her late 30s with 1998’s Ray of Light.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Similarly, crew members also took field trips to such locations as the Kamestastin Impact Crater in Labrador, Canada and the Icelandic highlands.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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Armed with lessons learned from a painful past, women put up a quiet but resilient fight to preserve the dignity of their lives and home in the breathtaking Montenegrin highlands.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There are high-mountain hikes aplenty, and the team can help set up trips to religious events (if the times align) and visits to traditional nomad families to learn more about the local culture.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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But, while watching the rugged coastline dip in and out of fjords and spiky mountains tumble down into the sea, magicians and musicals were far from my mind.—
Karen Gardiner,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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