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outcrops

  • present tense form
    of outcrop (3rd person singular).
    outcrop

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Japanese defense planners are also looking east, to the country’s Pacific side, where a jumble of tiny Japanese islands and outcrops lie more or less undefended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Rattlesnakes like to hide in complex rocky outcrops, tall grass and squirrel burrows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Having driven up to Llyn Teifi in the Cambrian mountains, we stand on a bridge, surrounded by rocky outcrops and marshland.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

"Elsewhere on Mars, rocks like these are probably some of the most important outcrops we've seen from orbit because they are just so hard to form," Horgan said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026

They climbed the low ridge, among outcrops of black rock, and were soon out of sight of the party behind them.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman