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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Named by her new owner, Silvia after a Mexican pop star whose 1980s hits ricochet from a rickety TV, Yuri upends Silvia’s solitary existence on a windswept island off the southern coast of Chile, setting the protagonist on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront childhood traumas.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Trod by more than 2,500 free-roaming bison, these windswept plains are at once quintessential Oklahoma and a modest wonder of the natural world.
—Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2026
Single’s Inferno in particular showcases a cast of women and men mostly in their early twenties on a deserted island, their poreless skin glowing as a breeze blows through their windswept hair.
—Sarah Wang, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
And then there’s another canyon a little bit further to the east, which has some windswept plains kind of feeling.
—AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Trod by more than 2,500 free-roaming bison, these windswept plains are at once quintessential Oklahoma and a modest wonder of the natural world.
—Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2026
Single’s Inferno in particular showcases a cast of women and men mostly in their early twenties on a deserted island, their poreless skin glowing as a breeze blows through their windswept hair.
—Sarah Wang, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
And then there’s another canyon a little bit further to the east, which has some windswept plains kind of feeling.
—AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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