mountainside
Americannoun
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mountainsides
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Origin of mountainside
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Insider tip: Ski to the Bavarian, a seasonal restaurant tucked into Kachina Basin for German fare and beers on a sunny mountainside deck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Most provocative are the thousands of small seismic tremors that emanated from the area of the slide in the days prior to the mountainside collapsing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The trust bought a mountainside lot on about two-thirds of an acre for $315,000 in cash, the seller told the newsrooms.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Residents affected by wildfires say they were left "angry and upset" after a mural of Prime Minister Andy Burnham was painted on a blackened mountainside above their homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He took Tree-ear to the temple on the mountainside, but the monks had been unable to take the boy in because fever raged there as well.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
There is no such thing as zero risk, and it may be advisable to keep away from pistes beneath mountainsides covered with powdery-looking snow.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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
The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
The contrast between forested mountainsides still covered in a healthy amount of snow and the burned, denuded ones drying much more quickly paints a grim picture of the San Gabriels’ future under climate change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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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