as in vast
unusually large
the seemingly mountainous obstacles he had to overcome while growing up
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Recent Examples of mountainous
That positive experience starts with Thailand’s endless supply of picturesque visuals from the south’s beaches (Phuket, Koh Samui, Krabi) and mountainous regions in the north (Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai).
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Jim Halterman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
The mountainous country is largely road-reliant and the Greek railway system is centered on a single route between Athens and Thessaloniki, a fact that made the collision harder for many to understand.
—Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
Eastern bongos are a species of antelope native to the mountainous forests of Kenya.
—Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Much of the winter snow in 2023 and 2024 came from atmospheric rivers that brought heavy snow to mountainous regions.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
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Jim Halterman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
The mountainous country is largely road-reliant and the Greek railway system is centered on a single route between Athens and Thessaloniki, a fact that made the collision harder for many to understand.
—Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
Eastern bongos are a species of antelope native to the mountainous forests of Kenya.
—Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Much of the winter snow in 2023 and 2024 came from atmospheric rivers that brought heavy snow to mountainous regions.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountainous
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With game file sizes ballooning into the hundreds of gigabytes, media going lost every day, and creative projects taking up vast swaths of drive bandwidth, expanding your computer's storage is a no-brainer.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PCMAG,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Arctic Ocean, nearly isolated from larger oceans by land bridges, became a vast, shallow, nutrient-rich basin.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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The huge showcase halls featured more than 6,000 exhibitors from around the world.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Mar. 2025
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Photo : Miroslav Cik A huge terrace wraps around the house, providing lots of space for alfresco dining and relaxing.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
4 Mar. 2025
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Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Some knobby with new growth, some short or gigantic, some suffering or shrunken, some reaching over paths and roads.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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The decision to remove the enormous mural near the White House comes after a U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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There are also the now-traditional summer preseason schedules of European clubs who spend a few weeks in America playing before enormous crowds before kicking off their new seasons back home.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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She’s accompanied by Cosmo, a robot with a giant cartoon head and the soulful eyes of someone—or something—that might be more than just a machine.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Paying the high acquisition cost to get him would be a massive risk.—
Peter Baugh,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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World’s biggest iceberg runs aground Weighing over a trillion tons and more than twice the size of London, the massive iceberg has been drifting in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica since 2020.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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One of the biggest questions in front of leaders—amid tremendous investment—is how to get meaningful value out of AI.—
Dan Adika,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Mass federal layoffs initiated by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have also created tremendous uncertainty for businesses.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Lunar Client debuted in April 2019 and struggled financially in its early days, but the company remained self-funded, with founders often going unpaid, before the platform’s popularity gained colossal momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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The colossal storm will put over 100 million people at risk of severe weather, from blizzard conditions in the northern Plains to tornadoes and wildfires in the South.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Mountainous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountainous. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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