as in mountain
a small hill
a grassy knoll
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Recent Examples of knoll
The entire family lived, learned and worshiped on the campus, perched atop a grassy knoll called Hangman’s Hill.
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Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
Music on the Green comes to the plaza near the Madeline Hotel & Residences, while the Sunset Music Series stage is located on a grassy knoll near the top of chairlift 1.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
The conspiracy-minded director, who’s never seen a grassy knoll without glimpsing a second gunman on it, is drawing an analogy between Lula’s political travails, involving a corruption investigation that led to a 580-day prison stint, and those of Donald Trump.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2024
Under drizzly clouds one day this spring, Threadgill-Matthews accelerated up the grassy knoll where Camden Academy once stood.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
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Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
Music on the Green comes to the plaza near the Madeline Hotel & Residences, while the Sunset Music Series stage is located on a grassy knoll near the top of chairlift 1.
—Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
The conspiracy-minded director, who’s never seen a grassy knoll without glimpsing a second gunman on it, is drawing an analogy between Lula’s political travails, involving a corruption investigation that led to a 580-day prison stint, and those of Donald Trump.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2024
Under drizzly clouds one day this spring, Threadgill-Matthews accelerated up the grassy knoll where Camden Academy once stood.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for knoll
Noun
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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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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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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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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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In 1848, gold was found at a sawmill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
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Resting amid a heavily wooded, 1.6-acre parcel tucked away in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains between Malibu and Calabasas, the architectural gem boasts picturesque views stretching from the Santa Monica Bay to downtown L.A. and across the San Fernando Valley.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
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At a dinner party at our home, my husband left the table momentarily, and a guest picked up his mug of coffee to look at the novelty message on it.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Bring the whole pan to the table to serve, along with rice, soup and pickles.The Week UK, theweek, 8 Nov. 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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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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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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“Knoll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knoll. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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