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Recent Examples of foothill
Held in Turin’s skylit Oval Lingotto in the foothills of the Alps, Artissima is Italy’s largest international contemporary art fair.
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Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff/Getty Images On a dead-end road that climbs out of the tiny city of Jenkins, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Eastern Kentucky, there stands a large warehouse with a mint green roof.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
The call came in on Oct. 18 from near Tellico Plains, Tennessee, about 50 miles southwest of Knoxville in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
Piñon trees — the hardy pine of New Mexico — line the foothills.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff/Getty Images On a dead-end road that climbs out of the tiny city of Jenkins, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Eastern Kentucky, there stands a large warehouse with a mint green roof.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
The call came in on Oct. 18 from near Tellico Plains, Tennessee, about 50 miles southwest of Knoxville in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
Piñon trees — the hardy pine of New Mexico — line the foothills.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
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In reality, the slant was just 25 degrees, but even a knoll seems formidable under the strain of psychic baggage.Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
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The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
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The Andean highlands provide temperate climates and breathtaking scenery, while beach lovers can enjoy the warmth of Manta.Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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The end result is comparable to something shot on location in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, but at a significantly lower cost. AdWaken.ai’s mission is to use AI to amplify its team’s capabilities, creating campaigns and high-conversion websites that grow brands and get audiences to take action.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
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The country’s upland areas are covered by a patchwork of teams made up of locals from all walks of life.Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
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Aided by legislation that rewards landowners for increasing the biodiversity of the Welsh uplands, his group has been planting trees — more than 300,000 at this point, including that rowan.Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
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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
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Meanwhile, back in Mosser’s neighborhood, community members were working to fill in the road just enough so that her husband and son could safely get down off the mountain to be with her.Michelle Boudin, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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One foot of snow has already hit the mountains west of Redding, California. ABC News' Marilyn Heck contributed to this report.Max Golembo, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Since then it’s been an emotional roller coaster for Democrats, who saw Harris surge only to plateau in the final month of the campaign.Amie Parnes, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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Crochet was one of 11 hurlers to surpass the 200-strikeout plateau, whiffing 209 hitters in 146 innings.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Extend your fingers and roll the log of dough toward yourself along the length of your fingers to create knobs.Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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The kitchen gadget has a large knob that’s easy to turn and ergonomic handles that are comfortable to hold.Isabel Garcia, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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