plateaus
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Plateaus of brass appearing on a sonic horizon like a strip of dry land.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
Microplastic rains down from the Antarctic to the Arctic, from Tibetan Plateaus to the peaks of the Pyrenees.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021
But again to the westward may be seen the crests of the upper walls reaching through the Kanab and Uinkaret Plateaus, and finally disappearing in the haze above Seventy-five miles away.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton
To the east, the province meets the Alleghany and New England Plateaus, and is connected with them by the upper Ohio and by the line of the Erie Canal.
From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson
To the south of Monte San Michele and north and east of Monfalcone there stretched the Doberdo and Carso Plateaus.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)