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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Much of the land best suited for new housing — windswept, grassy hills surrounding the state’s major cities — now faces an extreme threat of wildfire, brutally illustrated by the Los Angeles-area blazes in January that killed 30 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.
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Bloomberg, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
An lifeguard was impaled by a windswept umbrella the morning of June 25 in Asbury Park, a beachfront city of about 15,000 residents on New Jersey's central coast.
—Dan Radel, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Known for their resilience, these animals thrive in the harsh, windswept landscape and graze on everything from mountain grasses to seaweed.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
The stone monuments to the men’s success stand windswept and largely unnoticed on the Galway coastline.
—David Rooney
june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
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Bloomberg, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
An lifeguard was impaled by a windswept umbrella the morning of June 25 in Asbury Park, a beachfront city of about 15,000 residents on New Jersey's central coast.
—Dan Radel, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Known for their resilience, these animals thrive in the harsh, windswept landscape and graze on everything from mountain grasses to seaweed.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
The stone monuments to the men’s success stand windswept and largely unnoticed on the Galway coastline.
—David Rooney
june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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