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outcropping

  • present participle
    of outcrop.
    outcrop

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The Sunshine mine dates back to 1884, when two homesteading brothers spotted an outcropping and staked claim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024

Paul had become the large outcropping in the middle of a tangled landscape, the one I used to navigate my way home when I strayed too far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

It is a six-acre, dome-shaped outcropping that is tricky to reach and even trickier to explore.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

I could see the others all there; Esme, Emmett, and Rosalie, sitting on a bare outcropping of rock, were the closest to us, maybe a hundred yards away.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer