ravine
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The bus was travelling on the GM-2 road before crashing in to the ravine.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
“We left the wild running ravine in the back of the house and we built what I called the art deck,” she adds.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
Picture a long, slow climb up the mountain of fame and wealth heading for a sign marked “Happiness”—only to discover, at the pinnacle, that happiness is actually on another mountaintop, across a ravine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
About ten yards away, near the ravine, something white was tucked into the hollow of a tree.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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"The Ravine," Vocabulary from the short story
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"The Ravine" by Graham Salisbury
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