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Adjective
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As the cheers echoed around the craggy walls of limestone, lit up with flashes of pink and purple light, there was a feeling of having stepped back in time, or perhaps onto the set of a movie—a sense that would recur across my week in the region of Basilicata.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2025 -
Over in the Columbia land, the Hotel Transylvania trackless ride fittingly sits inside an almost full-size castle which looks like it is perched on a craggy mountain.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Some Puerto Ricans live in rural, mountainous areas or off-coast islands without acute care access, according to Peña.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Celebrations will take place on Thursday in other parts of the country stretching from the eastern coastal city of Pattaya to the mountainous northern city of Chiang Mai.—
Kocha Olarn,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The system was a stroke of genius for the city, where congested streets and an under-resourced bus system—not to mention its steep, hilly terrain—made commuting from one neighborhood to another inefficient, crowded and unreliable.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
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The winds also present dangers to flight crews, who need to navigate at low altitudes above hilly terrain.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This pick is also available in four other colors and a variety of smaller and larger sizes, but the oatmeal hue offers the steepest discount.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Those steep canyons were too treacherous to hike into—a broken ankle would require an air evacuation—so the crew’s assignment was to create a mile-long containment line in the peaks west of Mount Wilson Observatory.—
M. R. O’Connor,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But that engagement drop was more tempered compared to 2021's precipitous year-over-year decline.—
Neal Rothschild,
Axios,
14 Jan. 2025
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The streets here are steep, as in San Francisco-steep—so precipitous that brave locals (or crazy, some might say) hurtle down them in homemade bobsleds every January.—
Cassidy Randall,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Industry insiders are divided over whether NBCU’s restructuring would usher another wave of vertical integration.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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One of those priorities has been vertical videos, which have become important to media organizations because they can be viewed easily on mobile phones.—
Benjamin Mullin,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Scarped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarped. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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