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landform

noun

Definition of landform

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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 landform Each tribe or nation in the region passes down their own oral histories about this spectacular landform, but there are similarities among them. — Kelsey Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 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 Many of the holes are set along dramatic cliffs, meandering creeks, and other natural landforms. — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026 One of the highest-priority landforms was Orientale Basin. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for landform

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Those payloads give crews a visible way to assess where training rockets land during live-fire exercises.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

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With a nearly $3 billion market cap, Imax is a relatively inexpensive asset in the entertainment landscape.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Arizona also boasts diverse landscapes and a variety of ecosystems, from alpine forests to deserts, all of which different kinds of bats have fashioned a home.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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