hillside
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In Ganim, about two dozen pre-fabricated homes have already been installed, while steamrollers and other construction machinery busily created new space for future houses on the hillside on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
“From here we could see how the buildings fell,” said Jimena Cangrejo, who lives on a steep hillside with a view of much of Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Rescue efforts for others feared trapped in the debris after a hillside above the Orthodox Church monastery collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning have now been halted.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Two people involved in the firefighting operation walk across a scorched, smoking hillside at Ryvoan, Abernethy, on 19 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Once Duke bopped the button, the whole hillside would open up, like a grassy, hinged dome, and reveal the triple entrance slides down to their high-tech subterranean lair.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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Many face poor living conditions in Bangladesh, living in makeshift homes of tarpaulin and bamboo on steep hillsides.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Drawing on Spain's sunny plains, windy hillsides and fast-flowing rivers, the country aims to increase the share of electricity generated by renewables to 81 percent by 2030, up from around 60 percent today.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Worth Girvan supports SB 79 but worries that it eventually will allow much taller buildings in high-risk fire areas, particularly hillsides.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
They are commonly found in the south and south-west of England, western Wales and Scotland and their habitats include sand dunes, rocky hillsides, moorland and woodland edges.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
The image of Dodger was replaced by scary pictures of black trees stripped bare of branches and leaves, of hillsides covered in smoking gray ash, of a whole town burned to the ground.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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