hillside
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A column of thick smoke, made red by the setting sun, rose over the hillside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Miranda also referenced that difficult period during Friday's mission, when the players had to collect and assemble parts of Easter Island-like statues on a rainy hillside.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The animals’ relationship with residents in the surrounding hillside communities of the Inland Empire is more complicated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"Instead of water, oil comes out," said retired military officer Hector Valero Balestrini, gesturing toward a hillside where crude oozes naturally from the ground.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
I found a more or less flat place, a shelf, on the hillside a few yards up.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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
Worth Girvan supports SB 79 but would advocate for local carve-outs for hillsides and high fire-severity zones to better balance the need for housing and community safety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
With his troops dug in on surrounding hillsides, the blockade lasted 1,425 days.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was October, and the hillsides were awash in oranges and yellows and reds and greens.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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