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Denali

American  
[dih-nah-lee] / dɪˈnɑ li /

noun

  1. a mountain in southern central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6,190 meters).


Denali British  
/ dɪˈnɑːlɪ /

noun

  1. another name for Mount McKinley 1

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To get to Denali Backcountry Lodge in Alaska, guests take a helicopter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Among smaller stocks, I want to highlight Denali Therapeutics ahead of its potential first drug approval for Hunter syndrome by Jan. 5.

From Barron's • Sep. 26, 2025

The mountain had been formally titled Denali in 2015, under President Barack Obama's administration as a gesture to Native Americans in Alaska.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025

This is now a world, the orders seem to suggest, in which the names on a map, such as those denoting Denali or the Gulf of Mexico, are fragile and subject to revision without notice.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2025

The damage wasn’t discovered until late July, when a wildlife biologist named Paul Atkinson made the grueling ten-mile bush-whack over the Outer Range, from the road into Denali National Park to the Park Service shelter.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer