mountainous
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The main reason is Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave inside Azerbaijan that was home to 100,000 ethnic Armenians until Azerbaijan took it by force in 2023.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Laying cable on a mountainous seabed across the 1,600 miles between Ireland and Newfoundland was even tougher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The company takes its name from a mountainous region spanning Argentina and Chile.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
After Tony Dunn lost his home in a California wildfire, he moved to mountainous North Carolina to avoid more climate disasters.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
It must actually be quite a depressing moment—to have slogged through a mountainous wilderness for ten or eleven weeks and to realize that for all that effort you are still but halfway there.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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