crag

as in cliff
a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice a menacing crag overhangs the hiking trail

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Recent Examples of crag There are three crags, and the plan is to develop one at a time, says J.D. Borgeson, the coalition's treasurer. Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2025 Ultimately, the Clear Creek crags would only flirt with the wildfire. Hannah Provost, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2025 In the relatively minor case of the Clear Creek crags in the burn zone of the Goltra Fire, the JCOS team asked an anonymous local route developer to do an unofficial evaluation of the hardware at the affected crags. Hannah Provost, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2025 Slice and Dice is a 5.12 in Indian Creek on the Way Rambo crag. Maya Silver, Outside Online, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crag
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Noun
  • The hike comes with a rewarding payoff: The view of waters rushing off a cliff into a turquoise pool, a setting that's the crown jewel of the Havasupai Indian Reservation.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • Magic wrote alongside a photo of the happy group, posed on the deck, in front of a dramatic backdrop of seaside cliffs.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But what are the other buildings impacted by palisades fires?
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Crag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crag. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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