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Recent Examples of sierra
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.
—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.
—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
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“Sierra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sierra. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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