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The kitchen turns out whimsical bar food, like Mexican pizza, and wall art depicts the buttes and cacti of the Seussian desert.—
Chris Malloy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
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Take in jaw-dropping views of the Painted Desert, a colorful expanse of hills, buttes, and mesas.— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
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The reserve features high, broken cliffs and deep ravines on headlands overlooking the ocean.— Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
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Why book Olive and citrus-topped mountains, cliffs folding into ruddy-brown valleys, white sands and the teal Aegean Sea; western Crete’s scenery is astonishing.— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
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Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.— New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
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This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.— Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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Novices can stroll along the Upper Dells and bluffs or more adventurous explorers can descend down two trails that snake through the interior.— Joie Probst, Midwest Living, 10 Apr. 2026
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One afternoon, in Jasper, Gordon Watkins, who runs the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance, pointed to the limestone bluffs along the Buffalo National River.— Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
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That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.— Ari Daniel, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
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Coastal cliffs and crags are punctuated by black-sand beaches, and rich rain forests hide a towering volcanic cone.— Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2026
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In the teen’s case, five large keloids abruptly burst from her chickenpox scars, breaking out in different places on her body—on her right jaw, chest, abdomen, and right flank.— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
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In 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought samples of an asteroid named Ryugu to Earth — and now, scientists examining those samples found that the object bears the scars of a recent encounter with tiny space rocks.— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Hogbacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/hogbacks. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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