as in short
having relatively little height
the low-lying hills blocked our view of the sea only a little bit
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Recent Examples of low-lying
Residents in low-lying areas of neighboring Waupaca County have also been advised to evacuate due to the rising floodwaters.
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Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
What led up to this alert Cheboygan is one of several areas of concern in Michigan, where snowmelt from winter storms aggravated by additional rain overtook riverbanks and low-lying areas.
—Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
When heavy rain occurs, there is a risk of flooding, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone regions.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2026
If no building is available, either get down in your car and cover your head, or abandon your car and lie flat in a low-lying ditch or depression and cover your head with your arms.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
What led up to this alert Cheboygan is one of several areas of concern in Michigan, where snowmelt from winter storms aggravated by additional rain overtook riverbanks and low-lying areas.
—Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
When heavy rain occurs, there is a risk of flooding, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone regions.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2026
If no building is available, either get down in your car and cover your head, or abandon your car and lie flat in a low-lying ditch or depression and cover your head with your arms.
—Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for low-lying
Adjective
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Poor sleep makes wrinkles look deeper, and consistently short nights accelerate visible aging.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
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This interactive project looks at the impact of warmer, shorter winters on regions all over the country, from less ice fishing in Minnesota and fewer ski days in Colorado to drying reservoirs in the Southwest and more ticks and mosquitoes in the Northeast.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Generally, the Hilton hotel, where the dinner has taken place for years, remains open to regular guests during the correspondents’ dinner, and security has typically been focused on the ballroom and rather than the hotel at large, with little screening for people not entering the dinner itself.—
Collin Binkley,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Security has typically been focused on the ballroom — rather than the hotel at large — with little screening for people not entering the dinner itself.—
Bridget Byrne,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Apr. 2026
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Ceija Stojka’s small paintings at the Drawing Center swarm with such harrowing incident that viewers may not spot the mystery in the bottom right corner of many of her canvases.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Pistons are small favorites on the road for Game 3.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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The group, originally signed to RCA Records, released two albums of bustling synth pop and opened for Harry Styles in the late twenty-tens but was cast off in the early days of the pandemic owing to low sales.—
Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Senators Chris Murphy and Ruben Gallego have spoken publicly about wanting to pursue this, and Bedoya notes that there’s precedent for this action, citing Democrats’ recent introduction of a bill to break up the meatpacking industry to create lower prices for consumers.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
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What last Friday’s 5-0 win away to Sunderland might have done for Pereira is give him just a tiny bit more freedom; the opportunity to go slightly stronger with his team selections in these two games against Villa, either side of a still-vital trip to Chelsea on Monday.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The technique used to measure the singularities’ velocity could open the door to studying other tiny, fast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology—or perhaps to find new ways to encode quantum information in materials, according to the researchers.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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