foothill

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
Noun
  • The widow’s house has become our grassy knoll.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Another location seems more likely, a mansion on a secluded knoll in Bloomfield Hills.
    Eric Shawn, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • Set in the country's highlands, La Ruta de Las Flores is a scenic drive that connects several villages, and bursts to life when the coffee fields lining it come into full bloom.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The final section may prove anticlimactic for some, given the fleeting images captured of elephants believed to have inhabited the highlands for 5,000 years.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
    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
Noun
  • Pygmy rattlesnakes are found near water and sometimes in rocky uplands, pine woods and glades, according to the TWRA.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Whereas previous metal pollution records extracted their silt, or evidence from areas far from their sources— upland peat cores or mountain and polar glaciers, Cambridge specifies –the most recent data comes from the epicenter of production, a paleochannel of the River Ure, Cambridge explains.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The post also includes videos of Twiggs skiing down a mountain.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The evening after Jîna’s death, on assignment for the newspaper Ham-Mihan, my friend and colleague Elaheh Mohammadi drove eight hours overnight, through winding mountains and narrow roads, to Saqqez, Jîna’s hometown in Kurdistan.
    Fatemeh Jamalpour, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cashiers, North Carolina Located in western North Carolina's Jackson County, high on a plateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Cashiers is a quiet village of fewer than 1,000 residents.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The iPhone 17 Pro has a large rectangular plateau to contain its three main cameras.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Having sat with Jones in their home studio, Ronson understood the language of digital sound meters, tape machines and knobs and faders, as well as the importance of reading the room.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The third knob is paleogeography.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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