mesa
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Under the veil of the Manhattan Project, this remote mesa became the site of a profound scientific pivot that ended a world war and ushered in the nuclear age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The area around the mesa is rugged, quiet and vast, and water has to be hauled in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023
Archival footage of the park’s 1971 inauguration shows the first lady disturbed by fence on the mesa and asking that it be taken down so she could hug and shake hands with people in Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
The basket was filled and I carried it up to the mesa.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
Washington, Utah, located just southwest of Zion National Park, is surrounded by cinematic mesas and has long been a hub for exploring the natural wonders of the American west.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
In Taos, Zappa has found a measure of solace in the stark beauty of its mesas and snow-capped mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024
The central summit area is marked by several elevated mesas forming an arc, reaching a regional high and sloping downhill away from the summit area.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
The territory is a varied desert landscape — mountains and canyons, sand dunes and mesas, Joshua tree forests and volcanic cinder cones — and features about 10,000 threatened desert tortoise within its boundaries.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
He tried to determine when it had been built, but except for the sagging screen all around the long porch, the house was like the mesas around it: years had little relation to it.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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