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Recent Examples of mountain rangeAfter 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
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.
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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.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
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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.
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.
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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.
And a four-corner hydraulic-lift system takes the worry out of speed humps or heavily rutted roads.
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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.
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