as in crest
the line formed when two sloping surfaces come together along their topmost edge
pigeons roosting along the ridge of the roof
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as in to drift
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Recent Examples of ridge
Mary Claire Britton, Southern Living, 7 June 2025
In 2023, a predominant large-scale jet-stream pattern featured a large ridge in the western United States and Canada, and a trough across the East.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Noun
This recipe would be great with medium shells, penne, or rigatoni, too, anything that will allow the sauce to fill ridges and sneak through tubes is perfect.
—Mary Claire Britton, Southern Living, 7 June 2025
In 2023, a predominant large-scale jet-stream pattern featured a large ridge in the western United States and Canada, and a trough across the East.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 June 2025
Verb
The atmospheric setup here is fairly complex, with the region just on the edge of high pressure ridging that will help keep skies clear.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridge
Noun
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Back to the July 2024 crest, not quite up to the fourth-quarter exuberance peak.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
2 June 2025
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It was illustrated with a cross-section of a gooey candy bar; a dollop of beige cream, spiralling up into a wavelike crest; and a few free-floating hazelnuts and leaves.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
Verb
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The Switch's most famous durability issue has been the Joy-Con controllers that have experienced drifting problems, but that's only part of the story here.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
6 June 2025
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The smoke has drifted south and east, creating moderate air quality levels for a large swath of central and southeastern states, according to AirNow.gov.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
Verb
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However, Horvath adds that the modular approach IBM is banking on to get there could prove challenging.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 June 2025
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Vrabel is banking on that group to both be stout against the run and inject life into a Patriots pass rush that ranked last in the NFL in sacks and sack rate in 2024.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2025
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Even if they are increasingly getting lumped together by both the industry and consumers, their businesses are incredibly different, according to a dozen insiders working in the global independent market that talked to The Hollywood Reporter.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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She is frustrated the administration is lumping him in with others who perhaps entered the country without legal status and committed multiple crimes.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
1 June 2025
Verb
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The wet clippings clump together on the mower blades and in the lawn.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon which stars and galaxies eventually grew.—
Stephen Clark – Jun 6,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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