upper reaches
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By 191, Severus was governor of a province on the upper reaches of the Danube.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Baldy changes after a winter storm, when the upper reaches are blanketed in snow and ice and a slip in the wrong place can lead to a catastrophic, unstoppable fall.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
The trust's data does not go far enough back to record exactly when salmon were last spotted in the river's upper reaches - but it believes the last sighting was more than a century ago.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
Starting in 2018, the research team carried out extensive field surveys in the upper reaches of the Dadu River.
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025
Their wealth is washing over the upper reaches of society as it did a century ago, bringing cultural and political clout as they take up positions on museum boards and organize presidential campaign fund-raising dinners.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
