mesa
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If it is not already part of a dish, the obligatory salsa de mesa stands by to add zing and heat.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024
The cultural significance of this place isn’t evident to many, even though the mesa, which is about 12 acres, has long been mired in land-use battles.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2023
Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2023
Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2023
“If you go on up the canyon,” Oppenheimer suggested, pointing east, “you come out on top of the mesa, and there’s a boys’ school there which might be a usable site.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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