mountainside
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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
The vehicle careered off the road and rolled down the mountainside before coming to rest in a field below.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
The couple had arrived just hours earlier at the Mount Carmel Medical Center and were taken straight to the facility's underground shelter, carved into the mountainside.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Video posted online by the New Zealand Herald showed a chunk of the mountainside slowly collapse, pushing camper vans aside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
He was startled: the gods were coming up the mountainside, and they had almost reached his house.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
He watched firefighting helicopters and airplanes make laps past thick red streaks of fire retardant splattered on mountainsides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2024
The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
The area in central Taiwan that will be hit, was struck by a large earthquake earlier this year, which destabilised mountainsides.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
Rice fields are carved into mountainsides in an elaborate series of terraces, or painstakingly constructed from marshland and river plains.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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