Thesaurus results for LANDFORMS

landforms

noun

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 Satellites look back at Earth, studying its changing landforms, migrating wildlife, diminishing glaciers and natural disasters. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026 The filing says that the tree project would proceed regardless of whether the administration ultimately moves forward with the redesign and will not alter holes, routing, greens, bunkers or landforms. — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2026 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

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Noun

Most of that wear lands on your tooth enamel, the hardest substance in the human body.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
About $1 trillion of the 2027 spending lands as S&P 500 revenue, by Morgan Stanley’s estimate.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of lands

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That isn’t unusual for someone who draws and paints every day — but this latest dirt is real, dug from the ground in Yorkshire and Warwickshire, England, and used as the medium for her drawings of trees and landscapes.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
These big-impact midterms have also shifted power in the statehouses, often signaling changes in state and national political landscapes that have mattered and lasted.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026

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