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highland

[hahy-luhnd] / ˈhaɪ lənd /










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The reader advances across Mr. McKay’s superb translation as though compelled by a fierce highland wind.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Despite that short evolutionary history, the plants have adapted to remarkably different habitats across the islands, including humid highland forests and hot, dry lowlands.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

Interestingly, the same gene has experienced strong positive selection in central African rainforest hunter-gatherers and in highland populations of Ecuador.

From Science Daily Jun. 14, 2026

Whole sections of coastal Nha Trang city were inundated last week, while deadly landslides struck highland passes around the Da Lat tourist hub.

From Barron's Nov. 23, 2025

So Dicey took her family across the top of the highland to the long beach.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

While studying the familiar dark plains and bright highlands, I somehow overlooked a pattern people have recognized for thousands of years.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2026

A flatbed truck carrying a tank rolled through the highlands, making its way through fields of blossoming pink almond trees and yellow wildflowers.

From Barron's Mar. 18, 2026

However, growing large amounts of maize in the highlands was difficult, and the Inca did not have seafaring technology.

From Science Daily Mar. 7, 2026

"Gezani will cross the central highlands from east to west today, before moving out to sea into the Mozambique Channel this evening or tonight," the service said.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2026

We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba




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