as in vast
unusually large
the seemingly mountainous obstacles he had to overcome while growing up
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Recent Examples of mountainous
To access a plethora of mountainous backcountry trails, go east.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
Staff made more dramatic changes to the bears’ indoor habitat, adding murals of mountainous landscapes, black locust timber climbing structures, new flooring and upgraded air conditioning.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
Two to 4 inches of rain are expected across Northern California, the NWS Sacramento office posted on X, as well as heavy snow in mountainous areas.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
But there, too, Turkey’s drones and a ring of forward bases have hemmed in the PKK, preventing the group from using northern Iraq’s mountainous terrain to stage attacks into Turkey.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
Staff made more dramatic changes to the bears’ indoor habitat, adding murals of mountainous landscapes, black locust timber climbing structures, new flooring and upgraded air conditioning.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
Two to 4 inches of rain are expected across Northern California, the NWS Sacramento office posted on X, as well as heavy snow in mountainous areas.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
But there, too, Turkey’s drones and a ring of forward bases have hemmed in the PKK, preventing the group from using northern Iraq’s mountainous terrain to stage attacks into Turkey.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountainous
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Of course, the vast majority of these conscious-community figures aren’t leading cults, breaking laws, or condoning anyone who is, but there’s an openness to unconventional beliefs and conspiracy theories that the more predatory characters take advantage of.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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For much of her life, our writer consumed vast quantities of sugar every day.—
Emily Baumgaertner Nunn,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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The 27-track album became a huge catalyst for the recent spotlight on Black country artists and the genre's roots.—
Caché McClay,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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City faces Liverpool in a huge game in the Premier League on Sunday.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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This is the Hoosiers’ second gigantic Quad 1 win in the past two weeks, including a win at Michigan State.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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One of the puzzles in Animal Well (2024) requires memorizing a route to escape a gigantic ghost cat.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Trump demanded $500 billion in Ukraine's minerals as repayment for U.S. assistance, but Zelenskyy retorted that American aid hasn't come close to that enormous figure.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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That’s an enormous amount, obviously, even for a company as big as Apple.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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So that was the Warner Bros. connection, and Harold and Warner Bros. did me a giant favor by sending Vision Quest to Stanley Kubrick.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Feb. 2025
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But the ever-growing Baja side of the menu now includes fish tacos, snapper Veracruz, a spicy sausage queso and margaritas the size of a giant fishbowl.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Feb. 2025
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The Senate's version would break it up into two pieces for the sake of speed, and the House's version would wrap it into one massive package in the hopes of squeezing it through their narrow Republican majority.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Not refining the budget on paper by playing with numbers, but by being productively smart and undertaking a massive effort of production engineering.—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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Houston validated it with a tremendous comeback win at Arizona.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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And if the designation became a steppingstone to launching flashy unilateral military strikes on Mexican soil, the battle against fentanyl smuggling would suffer a tremendous setback.—
Vanda Felbab-Brown,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Feb. 2025
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While most coffee cake recipes don’t involve any coffee at all, these colossal bakery-style muffins take the recipe name a bit more literally.—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Feb. 2025
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Despite its colossal size, the look managed to exude an ethereal aura with its floaty, sheer layers and curved draping details on the sweetheart-neckline bodice.—
Justine Fisher,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Mountainous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountainous. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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