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Recent Examples of mesa Think again, as the California Zephyr, the longest route in America crosses through seven states, carving up Colorado’s canyons, then passing into Utah where the sun ignites mesas into flaming towers of rock. —
Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026 Petit Jean Mountain is the name commonly given to the large mesa on the south bank of the Arkansas River in Conway County. —Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2025 Continue west to Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City crowning a 367-foot-tall mesa. —Kit Bernardi, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 Instead, tribal members have relied on a single power line that runs roughly 30 miles east and west across high desert punctuated by three distinctive mesas, home to 12 distinct villages, including some of the oldest inhabited communities in the United States. —Nate Perez, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mesa
Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026 Petit Jean Mountain is the name commonly given to the large mesa on the south bank of the Arkansas River in Conway County. —Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2025 Continue west to Acoma Pueblo’s Sky City crowning a 367-foot-tall mesa. —Kit Bernardi, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025 Instead, tribal members have relied on a single power line that runs roughly 30 miles east and west across high desert punctuated by three distinctive mesas, home to 12 distinct villages, including some of the oldest inhabited communities in the United States. —Nate Perez, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mesa
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesa
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This was a small decline of 10,000 on the prior week but in British ratings terms is effectively a plateau and will likely lead to a sigh of relief among the SNL UK creative team and executives at Sky.— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026
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Tuesday night is also David Pastrnak’s final chance at cracking the 100-point plateau for the fourth consecutive season.— Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
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Similarly, crew members also took field trips to such locations as the Kamestastin Impact Crater in Labrador, Canada and the Icelandic highlands.— Leonard David, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
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Armed with lessons learned from a painful past, women put up a quiet but resilient fight to preserve the dignity of their lives and home in the breathtaking Montenegrin highlands.— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026
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Pedro Cervantes painted jewellike vistas of New Mexico’s tablelands.— John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
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The tableland was formed by volcanic eruptions about 700,000 years ago, according to the Bishop Chamber of Commerce and Information Center.— Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Mesa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/mesa. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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