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Recent Examples of cliff
The season ends with Sophie dragging Kyle’s body through the woods and to the edge of a cliff, dropping it in the water below.
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Melissa Locker, Time, 23 July 2025
Instead, one of them is messing around on the road, causing a driver to swerve, crash and fall off a cliff into the water.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 18 July 2025
Nevertheless, the public transportation coalition continues using the out-of-date $771 million fiscal cliff projections only months before 40% service reductions become real.
—Maurice Scholten, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
The early morning temple grounds are green and quiet, stacks of stone carvings lean against each other inside tall alcoves carved out of the cliff by centuries of water.
—Rebecca Chace
july 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
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Melissa Locker, Time, 23 July 2025
Instead, one of them is messing around on the road, causing a driver to swerve, crash and fall off a cliff into the water.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 18 July 2025
Nevertheless, the public transportation coalition continues using the out-of-date $771 million fiscal cliff projections only months before 40% service reductions become real.
—Maurice Scholten, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
The early morning temple grounds are green and quiet, stacks of stone carvings lean against each other inside tall alcoves carved out of the cliff by centuries of water.
—Rebecca Chace
july 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliff
Noun
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The swollen river overwhelmed Camp Mystic, where counselors and campers awoke in the dark and tried to dash through rising water, some clinging to trees or scrambling up rocky escarpments.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC news,
9 July 2025
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With that enormous amount of moisture serving as fuel, the winds hitting the escarpment in West Texas served as a kind of match that started the storms.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Access to its sandstone crags is impacted by seasonal water levels: In summer, climbers often reach the cliffs by boat and ascend right from the water; in winter, the lake gets drained.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
14 July 2025
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Climbers also need to allow up to an hour for walking to the crag.—
Matthew Tostevin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The palisade walls and structural support beams that hold up the fort are made to look like wood but are constructed of concrete.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
13 Jan. 2025
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The countries could simply call Trump’s bluff, Seigle argued, knowing that a severe trade disruption would hurt the US as much as their own economies.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
24 July 2025
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The floods of 1998 and 2002 had delivered water over the first couple of steps up from the bluff.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
15 July 2025
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“Cliff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliff. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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