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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What to Do Sure, wine tasting and farm-to-table dining is why many travelers come to the Willamette Valley to begin with, but its vast beauty shouldn't be wasted.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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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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Skeptics argue that the huge sums of money invested in the project could be better spent elsewhere.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
4 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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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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There are spells, curses, vendettas, a twist villain, giant dragons who turn into humanoid warriors and many other creatures populating the world of this gargantuan feat of eye-popping computer animation.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
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The pair re-teamed at the Academy Awards the following year for the broadcast’s introductory sketch, which featured Palance dragging a giant Oscar statue onstage, with Crystal (again the host) riding it.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
2 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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This is a time of tremendous grief and pain for those who knew and loved him.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 2025
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Of course, Cena vs. Rhodes sounds like a tremendous WrestleMania main event on paper, too, a bout that WWE fans would be easily invested in given how popular Cena and Rhodes have been at their peaks.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes,
2 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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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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“Mountainous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountainous. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.
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