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Recent Examples of mountain range
This historic town is also close to Serra d’Irta National Park, which preserves a coastal mountain range of the same name.
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Maya Silver, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
The area sits atop the El Tigre fault line in the Western Precordillera in Argentina east of the Andes, a complex mountain range defined by numerous fault lines and systems, most notably those created by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
One that seemed to wash the world in pinks and purples, turning an imposing volcanic mountain range in the distance into a confection?
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
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
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 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
Maya Silver, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
The area sits atop the El Tigre fault line in the Western Precordillera in Argentina east of the Andes, a complex mountain range defined by numerous fault lines and systems, most notably those created by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
One that seemed to wash the world in pinks and purples, turning an imposing volcanic mountain range in the distance into a confection?
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
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
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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountain range
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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
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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
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The model suggested that ice from Antarctica alone — before any additions from Greenland, mountain glaciers or thermal expansion — could raise the seas by more than a meter by 2100.—
Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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The director continues to drum up the suspense when, after a Hollywood-style car chase that’s perfectly executed, the clan arrives at Iman’s childhood home in the mountains, where things definitely take a turn into thriller territory and several guns come back into play.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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The forecast map predicts the Upper Peninsula has mostly reached past peak fall colors, with peak colors in areas of the Lower Peninsula.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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This year's Orionids shower is due to peak when there is a new moon, providing darker skies and ideal conditions for meteor spotting.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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 25 Oct. 2025.
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