tor

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Noun
  • Another legend suggests the name came from two local buttes resembling piles of horse manure — the actual meaning of the word.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 7 May 2025
  • Image The forest stretches as far as the eye can see, over multiple buttes that rise dome-like out of the ground.
    Michael Hanson, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The countries could simply call Trump’s bluff, Seigle argued, knowing that a severe trade disruption would hurt the US as much as their own economies.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 24 July 2025
  • The floods of 1998 and 2002 had delivered water over the first couple of steps up from the bluff.
    Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024
Noun
  • Those kids don't really realize beneath that Big Blue jersey, there's a big beautiful scar, just a few inches long that subtly defines the life of Kenneth Horsey.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2025
  • Which Laser Resurfacing Facial Is Best for Collagen? Laser resurfacing helps treat acne, scars, sun damage, and wrinkles.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Will Gain More Power Iran’s clerical army is already a key power center, but the recent conflict has left it on the precipice of becoming the dominant political force in the country.
    Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • On the precipice of artificial intelligence (AI) robotics, the company executed a 1-for-8 reverse split intended to streamline internal structures for future growth.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • The hike comes with a rewarding payoff: The view of waters rushing off a cliff into a turquoise pool, a setting that's the crown jewel of the Havasupai Indian Reservation.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • Tourists lean out windows to snap pictures of the steady stream of melting snow tumbling over a small band of cliffs onto the road ringed by towering high alpine peaks and even bigger waterfalls.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Climbers also need to allow up to an hour for walking to the crag.
    Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
  • Rebirth unfolds across a formidable, often beautiful landscape of crags, jungle, rivers and ruins, both modern and ancient.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the most perplexing hints of hydration are a handful of slope streaks: narrow, long and sometimes bright but usually dark features that are commonly located near the tops of crater walls and scarps.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 July 2025
  • The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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