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Recent Examples of foothill
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued extreme heat watches and advisories for the Central Valley, Sacramento Valley, Sierra foothills and other inland areas.
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Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Nestled into the northern foothills of Tuscany's coastal Bolgheri DOC, this small town shares more with its American namesake than just a name.
—Jessica Dupuy, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Related: North Tustin fights for independence, identity and maybe a new zip code
The North Tustin area — which boasts a strong sense of community in the foothills but uses a Santa Ana mailing address — shares a ZIP code now with Santa Ana.
—Gabrielle Gillette, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
The incident reportedly took place on a private ranch in Sweet Grass County near the foothills of the Crazy Mountains, according to the Big Timber Pioneer, which first broke the story Tuesday.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2025
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Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Nestled into the northern foothills of Tuscany's coastal Bolgheri DOC, this small town shares more with its American namesake than just a name.
—Jessica Dupuy, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Related: North Tustin fights for independence, identity and maybe a new zip code
The North Tustin area — which boasts a strong sense of community in the foothills but uses a Santa Ana mailing address — shares a ZIP code now with Santa Ana.
—Gabrielle Gillette, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
The incident reportedly took place on a private ranch in Sweet Grass County near the foothills of the Crazy Mountains, according to the Big Timber Pioneer, which first broke the story Tuesday.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
Noun
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The burden of your inquiry into this wrongful closure should rest squarely on the wrongdoer’s shoulders, not on those of the innocent public trying to access their beloved knoll.—
Letters To The Editor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 May 2025
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In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.—
Erika Hayasaki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
Noun
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The Last Nomads In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.—
The Dial,
The Dial,
22 May 2025
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Shepherd spent most of her life near the Cairngorm mountains of the Scottish highlands, exploring the flora and fauna of the rugged hills as often as possible.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
1 May 2025
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There were ferric hillocks of oxidized green and chasms that tore through flat earth, at the bottom of which a ribbon of river caught the sunlight.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Just an hour away, in New Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson stowed his private painting gallery beneath a hillock and shut it behind a steel door.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2025
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With seven miles of shoreline, the 892-acre park has plenty of space to explore tidal wetlands interspersed with farmland and upland forests.—
Simon Davidson,
Travel + Leisure,
25 May 2025
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This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
27 Apr. 2025
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2023
Noun
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Fast-forward to Paradise, where a dystopian community has been built beneath a mountain in Colorado in preparation for an apocalyptic disaster.—
Hilton Dresden,
HollywoodReporter,
7 June 2025
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The Darjeeling Limited underscores the folly of these men riding the rails with mountains of literal and metaphorical baggage in tow, and how the country humbles them before any healing can begin.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
7 June 2025
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Accounts that stay committed keep growing while others plateau or give up.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Sensor tech hit a plateau in picture quality around 2015 with the release of the first camera with a full-frame BSI CMOS sensor, the Sony a7R II.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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Shower flooring must be non-slip and shower knobs should be at wheelchair height.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
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Protect Hardware When Painting Painting can result in a real mess when stray streaks and drips land on handles, knobs, and pulls.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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