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Recent Examples of mountain rangeThis historic town is also close to Serra d’Irta National Park, which preserves a coastal mountain range of the same name.—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
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
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.
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Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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.
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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