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relief map

noun as in map showing land features

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At the Survey, Strahan drew relief maps before colour printing was introduced.

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She scooped a handful of fire and sculpted the flames until she was holding a miniature relief map of Italy.

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Her lined face, frail but steady stature, and admirable doggedness are this movie’s relief map of human endurance.

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Near the beginning of the atlas is this relief map, with only faint state boundaries, conveying the full magnificence of the land itself.

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Picture the charred 2020 college football landscape as a relief map showing those programs with the tower lights still on, and the national season looks only half-national.

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