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mountainous

[moun-tn-uhs] / ˈmaʊn tn əs /


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Ipsos showed Fujimori dominating the capital Lima, carrying the urban vote and the coast, while Sánchez swept the rural vote and the mountainous Andes regions.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The underlying work has a mountainous landscape in the style of hit television painter Bob Ross.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

After Tony Dunn lost his home in a California wildfire, he moved to mountainous North Carolina to avoid more climate disasters.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

It could have been in a mountainous region in Patagonia, he said, perhaps in the provinces of Chubut, Neuquén or Río Negro.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

But these questions were tiny pebbles compared with my mountainous wonder at what had just happened.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis




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