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Recent Examples of mountaintop
This is going to become crucial when the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), conducted by the Rubin Observatory from its mountaintop perch in Chile, starts delivering observations of unprecedented numbers of supernovas.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 May 2026
In winter, ski out the back door of a mountaintop townhome.
—Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
In 2021, a cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of northern Italy’s Lake Maggiore plummeted to the ground when a cable snapped, killing 14 people.
—ABC News, 4 May 2026
Five days a week, and sometimes weekends, the herding dogs punch the clock and go to work clearing birds and woodland creatures from the mountaintop airfield at CRW.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 May 2026
In winter, ski out the back door of a mountaintop townhome.
—Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
In 2021, a cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of northern Italy’s Lake Maggiore plummeted to the ground when a cable snapped, killing 14 people.
—ABC News, 4 May 2026
Five days a week, and sometimes weekends, the herding dogs punch the clock and go to work clearing birds and woodland creatures from the mountaintop airfield at CRW.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountaintop
Noun
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Japan’s prime minister courted Pacific island nations at a summit in Tokyo aimed at keeping them out of Beijing’s orbit, underscoring an intensifying rivalry between the Asian powers.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
3 June 2026
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The Tivat summit will focus on the prospects for membership of the six Western Balkan candidate countries — Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
Noun
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This spring, Munetaka Murakami, Tatsuya Imai, and Kazuma Okamoto all left the island nation and headed for the pinnacle of baseball competition.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The second time, the Devil takes him to the top of the pinnacle of the Temple in Jerusalem and invites him to throw himself off of it, since God will surely send angels to catch him.—
Isaac Butler,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
Noun
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Cars and trucks piled into the roundabout, horns blaring.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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The caller honked her horn, and the Tesla driver reached into her vehicle and yelled at her.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
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“Mountaintop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountaintop. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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