hill

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With Yamamoto taking the hill, the Dodgers became the first team in MLB history to start three consecutive Japanese-born pitchers — with Sasaki having started Monday, Ohtani on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

A judge in Brazil has blocked a project to build a zipline connecting the famous Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro to a nearby hill, Morro da Urca.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

In February of 2021, Woods was driving down a curvy hill near Los Angeles when his car hit the median, then a tree and flipped several times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Next to all that, a rocky relationship styled into an on-and-off situationship for a reality TV subplot is the proverbial hill of beans Rick Blaine mentioned in “Casablanca.”

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Grabbing his arm, she dragged him up the hill.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver