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sierra

[see-er-uh] / siˈɛr ə /




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In this recipe, which is adapted from “The Food of Oaxaca,” chef and author Alejandro Ruiz recommends sierra or mahi-mahi, which are caught off the coast of Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2021

The sierra and Gran Parque Natural Topes de Collantes, where you’ll find the Caburní waterfall, are a popular day trip from Trinidad, though most people head to Parque el Cubano, which borders Trinidad.

From The Guardian Nov. 24, 2018

Numb to greatness, a humdrum appreciation comes with his sierra of staggering statistics.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2018

He stopped driving his taxi through the dirt roads of the sierra.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2015

Two of the eyries were in low belts of protruding rock which broke the steep slope of the sierra, a third in a detached crag about 150 feet in height.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

The story of Maoism’s travels takes in the tea plantations of north India, the sierras of the Andes, Paris’s 5th arrondissement, the fields of Tanzania, rice paddies in Cambodia and terraces in Brixton.

From The Guardian Mar. 16, 2019

Our water comes from Hetch Hetchy in the sierras.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2017

Our work in the sierras will be conducted over the next two years.

From Scientific American Aug. 31, 2017

He’ll be remembered as much if not more as a tragic caudillo, a reminder that revolutionaries are usually a lot less romantic when they come down from the sierras and govern.

From Time Nov. 26, 2016

The train clicked by the Union Stock Yards, doubly pungent in the day’s strange warmth, and skirted sierras of black coal capped with grimy melting snow.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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