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Recent Examples of sierra
Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.
—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.
—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sierra
Noun
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Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
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Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.—
Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Earlier this month, a snowmobiler was killed in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range after an avalanche buried him in snow.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Away Lutsen Mountains is one of only a few ski resorts in the Midwest on an actual mountain range.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Nearby Seceda mountain later featured as a screensaver in Apple’s iOS 7 update in 2013, prompting waves of visitors keen to see the image in real life — with daily numbers reportedly reaching 8,000 at peak times.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, imagery shows that two tunnels into a mountain near the Isfahan facility have been packed with dirt, a measure against missile strikes that Iran also did just before the June war.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Sierra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sierra. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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