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cliff

noun as in overhang on hill or mountain

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Bundy said it’s a necessary resource, since building in Malibu — a land of eroding cliffs and rising sea levels — is trickier than building in the flat lots found in Altadena and parts of the Palisades.

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“We are moving forward on a slow economic decoupling so this is more about each side managing the downward risk of a significant escalation and preventing the relationship from falling off a cliff,” Brilliant says.

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Like the cartoon character, having headed off the edge of a cliff, global trade is defying gravity momentarily but the running has kept going, and even sped up.

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As the morning marine layer burned off it revealed miles of dreamy California coastline, with sand cliffs tumbling to the shore.

These nocturnal hunters nest on cliffs or in crevices and often return to the same site for many years.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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