elevation
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To acclimate his players to the altitude, he held training camp in Pachuca, at an elevation of 7,979 feet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Goldman’s research momentum and market breadth signals do show signs of extreme elevation in the 98th and 94th percentile respectively.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
The so-called Nuremberg Drawing of 1300 shows on one side an abandoned design for the tower of the Freiburg Minster and on the other the plan and elevation of three Gothic churches.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Future retreat is expected to continue more slowly as the glacier loses mass and elevation.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Air temperature falls by about 2.5°F with every thousand feet of elevation, so it would have been chillier at this height anyway, but now it was positively uncomfortable.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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