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
Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
Leer pointed to temporary interruptions in nail growth due to illness or fever as a common trigger of horizontal ridges.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 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
Here’s how: Find a tree, dead or alive, by itself in muskeg or on an open ridge.
—Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
Leer pointed to temporary interruptions in nail growth due to illness or fever as a common trigger of horizontal ridges.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Verb
The atmospheric setup here is fairly complex, with the region just on the edge of high pressure ridging that will help keep skies clear.
—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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridge
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Riding the crest of the New Wave after the dual successes of Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge, Godard manages to convince de Beauregard to back a low-budget independent feature (made for today’s equivalent of $77,000) based on a news story about a gangster and his girlfriend.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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While other areas are in major flood stage, the forecasted crest for this location is closest to its record.—
Bruce Schreiner and Kristin M. Hall,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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The student wasn’t hurt, but the boat started drifting.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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The film, so enjoyably wacky at first, deflates and drifts to a stop like one of its showboat cars running on empty.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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With this move, Campbell is banking on his assessment of his former linebacker paying off in a major way.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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The decision to move into the consumer desktop space might seem odd, given the decline of desktop computing in recent years, but Gigabyte is banking on one major factor: AI.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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That lumps the technology together with AI and high-performance computing rather than focusing squarely on the radical new computing model.—
Michael Muchmore,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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An over-reliance on lumping in crosses to create chances will do that.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Rinsing removes excess starch, which helps keep the rice grains separate and fluffy rather than clumping together and forming a gooey mass, Olivia Roszkowski, chef-instructor of Plant-Based Culinary Arts at the Institute of Culinary Education’s New York City campus, tells SELF.—
Audrey Bruno,
SELF,
13 May 2025
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Scientists are inching ever closer to figuring out the biophysical rules that govern how and why those first cells clumped up and stuck together.—
Carrie Arnold,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Ridge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridge. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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