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hillside

[hil-sahyd] / ˈhɪlˌsaɪd /




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Large areas of hillside have also been observed turning green again as grasses, bracken and blaeberry begin to make a comeback.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

More than £1m is to be spent on nature recovery projects, including the restoration of habitats destroyed by a fire which ripped through a huge area of hillside in the Cairngorms.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Then, as the waves were still pounding, a fire broke out in the city’s bushy foothills Friday, quickly burning toward hillside neighborhoods and destroying homes in nearby San Juan Capistrano.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Picture a developer trying to build a hillside home; a commission that’s wary of such projects could reject it, while another commission that leans more pro-housing could approve it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

If a person like himself was just out digging on a hillside and happened to find something, it was his, right?

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

The city has already deployed goats to chomp away at invasive brush along the hillsides, but Cosgrove, who wrote Measure M, said more work is necessary to protect the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The prospector with his pan and pickax gave way to powerful water cannons that blasted away gold-bearing hillsides, leaving behind incoherent geological arabesques that will likely outlast the pyramids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The fire broke out in a canyon and had been moving up the hillsides, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Bukavu, on the shores of Lake Kivu, is known for its wooden houses built on hillsides, where deadly fires often break out.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Far back the fields were squares of green and brown on the hillsides.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway


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