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Recent Examples of mountain range
The name, however, dedicated to the sweeping mountain range where the actor called home and spent his final moments, will remain.
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
The Judiths are an island mountain range, far from the Western Rockies and Greater Yellowstone where the ursus horribilis likes to roam.
—Katie Jackson, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
And they can be visited at Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, roughly five hours north of Southern California in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
—Paul Bersebach, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
With an apex at 12,095 feet above sea level – higher than timberline – the windy road over the pass is only open from June through October each year due to the snow that piles up in the Sawatch mountain range.
—Jonathan Shikes, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
However, a new study suggests the geology beneath the world’s tallest mountain range is much more complex, proposing a novel crust-mantle-crust structure.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
The Judiths are an island mountain range, far from the Western Rockies and Greater Yellowstone where the ursus horribilis likes to roam.
—Katie Jackson, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
And they can be visited at Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, roughly five hours north of Southern California in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
—Paul Bersebach, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
With an apex at 12,095 feet above sea level – higher than timberline – the windy road over the pass is only open from June through October each year due to the snow that piles up in the Sawatch mountain range.
—Jonathan Shikes, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
However, a new study suggests the geology beneath the world’s tallest mountain range is much more complex, proposing a novel crust-mantle-crust structure.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 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
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Much of this can be attributed to flying down the middle of the South Island of New Zealand and seeing the green and treeless mountains in the light of late day, as if the whole island had just pushed itself up from the blue-green sea.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Washington Trail Association describes the Sauk Mountain Trail as a popular attraction with views of the Sauk and Skagit River valleys, Cascade mountain peaks and, on a clear day, the Olympics and San Juan Islands.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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These virtual stomps and rack-mounts are designed to be tweaked like their real-world counterparts, and up to eight effects can be daisy chained in one go, with easy drag-and-drop repositioning.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Sep. 2025
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The rail mounts on the frame can be locked at several different heights, while the mat’s rail is fixed at the midpoints of its left and right edges.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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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
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This affordable and machine-washable version comes in a range of 21 colors.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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Viki offers a range of free and subscription streaming options and is widely distributed across Samsung, LG and other connected TV platforms.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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Yet even something that’s 60% peak Kelce or peak Gronk would be better than what Nix has seen through three games.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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New River Gorge National Park, West Virginia West Virginia’s New River Gorge National Park reaches its peak color in late October with shades of orange, red, and yellow blending into a rich fall tapestry.—
Dave Parfitt,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 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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Halfmoon was the start of the standard route, and is named for Halfmoon Pass, a 970-foot camel’s hump of rock that must be ascended and descended before tackling the primary North Ridge trail to the summit, then must be ascended and descended again on return to the trailhead.—
Ted Katauskas,
Outside,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Mountain range.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20range. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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