mountainous
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The study highlights six main dangers that surging glaciers can create for nearby communities, especially in mountainous areas:
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
It is a mountainous road with sharp turns, and an image shared by the emergency services appears to show it crashing near a hairpin bend.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
She was “able to amazingly quickly cross quite mountainous terrain,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
The airman, an unidentified colonel as we write this, climbed into mountainous terrain despite his injuries to escape detection and await a rescue once the U.S. located him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions of Spain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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