mountainous
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The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India's northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Upper Colorado Basin, along with many mountainous regions across the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Not that a drawn out, stunt-heavy chase sequence on a mountainous highway doesn’t get the blood rushing again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The roiling mass of water, unleashed by a glacial collapse, swept down the Trishuli river, devastating a roughly 40-mile corridor of dams that were supposed to drive economic growth for mountainous Nepal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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