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The $450 million carbon-neutral library blends seamlessly into the rolling buttes.

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 7 Aug. 2026
Each summer, runners carry prayers more than 50 miles from the town of Bluff, Utah, to the high country below the buttes, and the White Mesa Ute community beside the monument holds its Bear Dance each year.

— Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

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The village’s historic pedestrian downtown, also known as Quadrado—a grassy square with a centuries-old whitewashed chapel on a bluff overlooking the bright-blue sea—is a 20-minute car ride away through a narrow dirt road.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Paramount insiders continue to insist the notion of Ellison’s Golden State exit wasn’t a bluff or a threat.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

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Sanitation crews are also working to clear debris and shore up burn scar areas to mitigate flood risks, Mayor Karen Bass’ office said in a statement.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
C’mon, isn’t the prospect of a scar on your nose another good reason to reach for sunscreen daily?

— Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026

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Three decades of Republican rule in Florida have brought the state’s education system to the precipice of a new era — one in which privately run institutions play an unprecedented role in teaching the next generation.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
Ideally, suicide prevention starts long before someone reaches a literal precipice.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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Pilots have compared landing on the short runway, with either side plunging straight down off the side of a vertical cliff, to landing on an aircraft carrier.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
This Victoria Falls masterpiece is, as its name suggests, modeled on the rich colors of one of the world’s most spectacular waterfalls, which sits on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe where the Zambezi River plunges over a basalt cliff.

— Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2026

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Photos from the scene show the aircraft off the paved runway and partially down a grassy embankment near the airport.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
At a road embankment in Utqiaġvik, our team used fiber-optic cables to collect temperature and seismic data.

— Ming Xiao, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of embankment

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The researchers say the ancient escarpment may have influenced river systems, sediment transport and the flooding of continental interiors long before the rapid diversification of complex life during the Cambrian explosion.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026

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Crater Lake National Park, Oregon Prepare to be awestruck during your first view of Crater Lake, a massive cobalt waterway flanked by a dome of steep crag.

— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2026
But, typical of Hockney portraiture, the resulting drawings magnificently captured every crag in Auden’s impossibly craggy face.

— Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026

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