mountainside
Americannoun
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mountainsides
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Origin of mountainside
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Within minutes, he and his crew were scrambling up the mountainside in darkness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The monastery includes a prayer chamber carved into the mountainside, where the worshippers had gathered for the special prayer service.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
That mountainside sanctuary, and her late husband for decades before she decided to gift it to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California, which offloaded it in July 2024, according to records.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Liu Shaoyong was the chairman of China Eastern Airlines when one of its planes mysteriously plunged into a mountainside in southern China in March 2022, killing 132 people on board.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
I hate to admit it, but Benefo is right—I can’t go a day without hearing some news story about a dormant volcano erupting or an avalanche crumbling down a mountainside.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Danger lurked in the shady groves of avocado trees that stretched on the mountainsides as far as the eye could see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Coastal Malibu, with its longtime residents and singular environmental challenges of managing construction along narrow beaches and steep mountainsides, has had the hardest time moving forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Kalmaegi dumped the equivalent of a month of rain on the island in just 24 hours, sending torrents of mud and debris down mountainsides and into urban areas.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Wari techniques had reclaimed more than a million acres of cropland from mountainsides that almost anywhere else would have been regarded as impossibly dry, steep, and cold.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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