mesa
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It has one narrow runway perched high on a mesa with steep cliffs at either end tumbling 1,600 feet to the deep blue Pacific Ocean.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024
The area around the mesa is rugged, quiet and vast, and water has to be hauled in.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024
Para personas como Solis, sin embargo, un dólar con menos poder adquisitivo es la diferencia entre llevar comida a la mesa o no.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2023
Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
The moon lacked only a night of being full, and the flat bare sandrock on the mesa top reflected its light like snow, and he could see his way clearly.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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