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Nix's season was done in the snap of an ankle bone, a freefall off an emotional mountaintop after leading the Broncos to a 33-30 overtime win over Buffalo in the AFC divisional round Saturday.
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Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
Nix's season was done in the snap of an ankle bone, a freefall off an emotional mountaintop after leading the Broncos to a 33-30 overtime win over Buffalo in the AFC divisional round Saturday.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026
While the epithet is sometimes attributed to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Ronda has maintained a romantic aura for centuries, drawing creatives like Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles to its mountaintop setting.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the observatory will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years using the 3,200 megapixel LSST Camera to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our universe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
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Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
Nix's season was done in the snap of an ankle bone, a freefall off an emotional mountaintop after leading the Broncos to a 33-30 overtime win over Buffalo in the AFC divisional round Saturday.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026
While the epithet is sometimes attributed to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Ronda has maintained a romantic aura for centuries, drawing creatives like Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles to its mountaintop setting.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the observatory will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years using the 3,200 megapixel LSST Camera to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our universe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountaintop
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Located 10 miles from the summit of Denali (at about 6,000 feet of elevation), the lodge overlooking the Ruth Glacier from a granite outcrop.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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The summit’s overall theme was the breakdown of American healthcare and how the industry needs to be disrupted and rebuilt from the ground up.—
Annie Levin,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But there’s one Michter’s expression that trumps all of these in terms of value and age—Celebration Sour Mash, a blend of whiskeys that represents the pinnacle of the distillery’s portfolio that has returned for 2026.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
11 Feb. 2026
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Sea turtles snoozed, manta rays glided, and reef fish darted by the thousands over lava pinnacles covered in corals and basket sponges.—
Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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And was the easiest of soft touches, but one who never tooted his own horn.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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For years, Fort Lauderdale has locked horns with Broward County over whether to build a tunnel or bridge.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Mountaintop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountaintop. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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