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Recent Examples of sierra
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.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.
—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
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.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.
—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sierra
Noun
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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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Away Lutsen Mountains is one of only a few ski resorts in the Midwest on an actual mountain range.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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HunterMoss, the luxury travel company founded by Australians Julie Hunter and Anthony Moss in 2008, has rolled out a new series of supercar tours throughout the legendary European mountain range.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But Smith’s international bona fides aren’t limited to the mountain.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Jan. 2026
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Strongest winds will occur on the eastern slopes of the San Bernardino mountains.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Sierra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sierra. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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