glen
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Ms Potter opened the page to find Iona - a text-to-speech programme marketed as a red haired woman standing in a Scottish glen.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
The glen is a large area of thickly wooded hillsides and glens with a river, streams and lochs south of Inverness.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
Each non-Pee-wee appearance required the audience to recalibrate our expectations and remove Reubens from the glen plaid suits and pomade-slicked hairdo for which we came to know him.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2023
In a leafy glen in a very small, beautiful moment, the trees watched too.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
He took another step, but he was still in the glen.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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Although most of the park fills up daily with birthday parties, off-leash dogs, and brass bands, it’s also home to a network of shady glens, murmuring creeks, and still ponds.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
It re-shaped the map of the Highlands with vast hydro schemes, which brought power and people into the Highland glens, much of that in the 1950s.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023
Indeed, consumers may want their vehicles not only to look good in, say, a wooded glen, but also to project the very idea that they care about wooded glens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Knoydart is one of the most rugged and remote parts of the British Isles, accessible only by boat or via a two-day hike through glacier-sculpted glens and mountains.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2022
That other world was suburban and endless, organized around pot roasts, blueberry pies, fireworks, ice cream sundaes, immaculate bathrooms, and small toy trucks that were loosed in wooded backyards with streams and glens.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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