highland
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The reader advances across Mr. McKay’s superb translation as though compelled by a fierce highland wind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite that short evolutionary history, the plants have adapted to remarkably different habitats across the islands, including humid highland forests and hot, dry lowlands.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Interestingly, the same gene has experienced strong positive selection in central African rainforest hunter-gatherers and in highland populations of Ecuador.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
The authorities reported that most people had died in highland areas, where saturated slopes gave way after days of intense rain.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
The result of the sweet potato’s arrival was a highland population explosion.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
A flatbed truck carrying a tank rolled through the highlands, making its way through fields of blossoming pink almond trees and yellow wildflowers.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
As the interior cools, the surface contracts, creating the compressional forces that formed lobate scarps in the highlands.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
These scarps are common in the lunar highlands and formed within the last billion years, about the most recent 20% of the Moon's history.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
One of the worst-hit places is the small town of Harcourt in the central highlands of Victoria, where firefighter Tyrone Rice lost his home in the blaze.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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