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escarpment

[ih-skahrp-muhnt] / ɪˈskɑrp mənt /
NOUN
slope
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One reason Hill Country gets powerful downpours is the Balcones Escarpment.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

He is lab director at Escarpment Labs in Ontario, Canada.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023

High up in the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali, West Africa, lies a host of abandoned cities that resemble the Anasazi cliff dwellings of New Mexico.

From Fox News • Jan. 21, 2020

The path was more like a service road, but after five minutes we arrived at the spacious, grassy Escarpment.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2018

With my hands in my pocket and my head bowed, I take the road to the Helderberg Escarpment and to the water that spills eight hundred feet.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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