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Adjective
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The drone used its thermal technology and other powerful sensors to scan the mountainous terrain where the helicopter went down amid pitch darkness and adverse weather conditions.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025 -
Troops easily invaded Phnom Penh, causing high-ranking Khmer Rouge to flee to western Cambodia’s mountainous terrain along the Thai border.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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McPhee was up early stretching after breakfast while story told that Ovechkin got out of bed, had a coke and then proceeded to play follow the leader along the hilly terrain with Ovechkin showing his power and strength while setting the pace.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The route zigzags its way across the Flemish countryside before completing two laps on a hilly circuit outside the town of Oudenaarde.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Underneath his post was a video shared by SpaceX—footage of craggy ice caps, taken by the company’s Dragon spacecraft during a private mission.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
2 Apr. 2025
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Mountains, glaciers, craggy coastlines and millions of seals, whales, penguins and seabirds are present here.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Rescue crews found the hikers along a steep cliff edge in the Big Flat Area, about 10 miles north of an area known as Shelter Cove, according to a news release from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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That was a slightly steeper decline than the one reported in a preliminary reading earlier this month.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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If both series were graphed using a single vertical axis, the (blue) intraday series would hug the horizontal axis.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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In fact, a 2024 study backed by the International Olympic Committee found that trans women who have suppressed their testosterone may face competitive disadvantages compared to cis women in some key metrics like vertical leap.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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These were: P-waves, which oscillate back and forth similar to how a sound wave propagates; S-waves which oscillate up and down, perpendicular to the direction of travel; and surface waves, which travel along the surface of Mars similar to ripples in a pond.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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This magnetic field is parallel to the outflows that form LBN 483, but perpendicular to the inflow of material falling onto the two stars.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Hillocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillocky. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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