landforms

plural of landform
as in lands
a natural feature (such as a mountain or valley) of the Earth's surface These landforms were created by glaciers.

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Recent Examples of landforms More than 200 trees are being planted, and landforms are being created to evoke the terrain of Los Angeles as a plain nestled between mountains. — Christina Merino, Daily News, 2 Sep. 2026 Experts say the realities of construction –– blasting through rock with dynamite, pouring concrete into natural landforms and storing water in reservoirs –– could have unintended effects. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026 There was nothing beyond the landforms of forehead, nose, and chin. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 The stunt, organized by phone-case maker RHINOSHIELD and UK aerospace company Sent Into Space, has now earned a Guinness World Records title for the highest drop of a mobile phone in a phone case onto natural landforms. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026 Beyond blending into the surrounding landforms, Snøhetta designed TRPL with a goal of meeting demanding sustainability certifications. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 July 2026 Today, meteorologists can take a pandemoniac system — Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and landforms — and make accurate forecasts up to two weeks into the future. — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026 One of the highest-priority landforms was Orientale Basin. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026 Shinomiya pays detailed attention to everything on screen, crafting not just the faces and emotions of the characters, but also all the other creatures, natural landforms and skies of this story world. — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
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Noun
  • The original series won the Golden Globe for best drama in 2019 and routinely lands near the top of lists hailing the best TV series of the past quarter century.
    — Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé, the only other player to cross the nine-figure threshold, lands in the third spot at $105 million.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
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  • The path contains extraordinary landscapes, archaeology, food and culture long before the moon's shadow arrives.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The action-drama is a road show that primarily films on location and often features rural settings, so the move to California provides new landscapes to masquerade as other locales.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Landforms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landforms. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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