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
Her efforts to elevate Diogenes into the upper reaches of the Greek intellectual pantheon are ingenious but ultimately unconvincing and, at times, misleading.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
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
In the upper reaches of the atmosphere you’d come apart, you’d vaporize, there would be no pressure holding you together.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
