as in crest
the line formed when two sloping surfaces come together along their topmost edge
pigeons roosting along the ridge of the roof
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as in to drift
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Recent Examples of ridge
Alissa Widman Neese, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
The 360-acre preserve adjacent to the LEC and Deltona Regional Library is home to a variety of wildlife, including Florida scrub jays and gopher tortoises, which are drawn to the low vegetation and sandy ridges of the scrub habitat.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
Neuroscientists have charted the mind’s incantation of words that lights up the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe, ridges in the cerebral cortex, triggering impulses that transform squiggles of ink into letters, letters to words, words to sentences and meaning and comprehension and empathy.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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Noun
Strenuous trails across ridges and along the river.
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The atmospheric setup here is fairly complex, with the region just on the edge of high pressure ridging that will help keep skies clear.
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Chelsea sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, have maintained throughout that the club’s crest is not going to be replaced by this new badge.—
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In Nevada, the NWS said that snow accumulations up to 2 or possibly 3 feet were expected near the Sierra crest.—
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But with the wind howling in Tuesday at Rate Field, left fielder Andrew Benintendi drifted over and made the catch.—
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Since then it’s drifted much farther away and has dimmed considerably.—
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The pass went awry as Thompson missed Dahlin and the puck banked off the boards and went into the back of the Sabres' own net, with no goalie to stop it.—
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Younger generations are increasingly banking on family money for down payments, Redfin research shows.—
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The cultural and political impact for Americans U.S. allies like Europe are lumped together in the new tariffs with economic adversaries like China.—
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Jim also argued that investors can’t lump all retailers together in terms of how tariffs will impact them because their business models, supply chains and customer bases differ.—
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Types of Kitty Litter (and When to Use Them) Types of litter vary based on consistency, clumping ability, and scent.—
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Tiny grains of dust scattered across the cosmos can collect in disks around young stars and clump together to eventually form planets.—
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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