mountain range

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Recent Examples of mountain range After breakfast, drive north from Palma about 25 minutes to the Serra de Tramuntana, a rugged mountain range (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) that covers the island’s northwest coast. Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 The storm is also bringing heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada, with snowfall totals forecast to be in excess of 3 feet in some parts of the mountain range. Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 Two people were seriously injured after being attacked by a grizzly bear in the McGregor mountain range, Canadian officials said. Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025 The incident occurred on the afternoon of October 7, atop Burro Lake Pass east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue Team said on Facebook. Owen Clarke, Outside, 13 Oct. 2025 The Bugaboot is named for Columbia’s iconic three-in-one Bugaboo jacket, which itself debuted in 1986 and is named for the Canadian mountain range. Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025 The genre emerged in the river system of the Mompos Depression, a vast wetland and in a small mountain range known as Montes de María. Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025 The monks were among 13 people traveling on the cable car at the Na Uyana Monastery in central Sri Lanka, which spreads over more than 5,000 acres of forest on a mountain range, Pansiyagama Police said. Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025 Rockslides and mudslides occur fairly regularly in Big Sur, where the Santa Lucia mountain range rises steeply from the Pacific Ocean, and a precarious state highway known as one of America’s most breathtaking drives has provided access since the 1930s. Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountain range
Noun
  • Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • In addition, breezy winds in the mountains will lead to wind chill values in the teens.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Their car rolled hundreds of feet down the mountain and landed upside down in a creek.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Handgrips on both sides allow those panels to be lifted off keyhole mounts; the mostly mesh front panel uses snaps to attach.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Both campaigns are intensifying their outreach as poll margins narrow and attention to the attorney general scandal mounts.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • Instead, the British ships stayed at Flushing Bay just beyond range, leaving the doorway to escape wide open.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Before the crash, air traffic control audio captures the pilots requesting an altitude range — known as a block altitude — to maneuver the airplane.
    Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gregerson’s shows her at the peak of her signature tercets, weaving together the microscopic and the grand threads of science, art, and history into wonderfully rich sonic landscapes.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The band members credit their love for music for saving them from connecting with the wrong crowd in the '90s, when gang violence was at its peak on the city's east side, which was a popular destination for immigrants.
    NPR, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And a four-corner hydraulic-lift system takes the worry out of speed humps or heavily rutted roads.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Promoting, as well as targeting, Miami-Dade County’s down payment assistance resources toward middle-income earners can get would-be buyers over the initial lump-sum hump, said Buckley.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Mountain range.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20range. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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