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Recent Examples of foothill
If Denver was a foothill, San Antonio is a mountain.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
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.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
Tiffany Yap, urban wildlands science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in addition, the status upgrade can influence foothill and mountain development land use.
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Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
28 Jan. 2026
Denise’s family was out on a foothill in a large, modern ranch house.
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Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for foothill
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
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
Tiffany Yap, urban wildlands science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in addition, the status upgrade can influence foothill and mountain development land use.
—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
28 Jan. 2026
Denise’s family was out on a foothill in a large, modern ranch house.
—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for foothill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
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As visitors like Fulkerson settled into folding chairs arranged along the same grassy knoll where John Brown and his followers fought their way into the red-brick armory, Kerwin rose, stepped to the microphone and looked out at the crowd gathered before her.
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About a mile north of Hereford High School on York Road is a grassy knoll rolling down to the Gunpowder River.
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The Simbari people of Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands separate boys from their mothers around the age of nine.
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The Macallan Importantly, this is the first time that Macallan fans will be able to have this type of experience without going through global travel retail or venturing into the heart of the remote Scottish highlands.
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Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.
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Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
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Photos also helped the DNR better understand trends in the lives of many mammals and upland birds such as wild turkeys.
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With seven miles of shoreline, the 892-acre park has plenty of space to explore tidal wetlands interspersed with farmland and upland forests.
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Sometimes finding the right trees can be an adventure, hiking into forests and mountains to find the oldest trees, patriarchs that hold centuries of information.
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And in the agricultural fields, and in the mountain towns, and in the Sahara.
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Perched on the edge of a rocky plateau above the village, its sleek, ultra-modern rooms open onto balconies with views of the rooftops below and the Matterhorn beyond.
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The iPhone’s technical performance is improving to support features such as generative AI, even as consumer requirements plateau.
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The lid has a silicone seal around the rim to keep everything fresh, and it’s topped with a glass knob for an elegant finish.
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Climate controls are operated via knobs below the center of the dashboard.
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Writing a Check Writing checks has gotten less and less common thanks to the prominence of online bill pay and the ease of paying with a card or via app (like Venmo).
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Both CrowdStrike and Palo Alto's rise to prominence has also intensified investor scrutiny, raising the bar on earnings expectations.
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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