the northeast

noun

variants or the Northeast
: the northeastern part of a country or region
A mountain range is in the northeast of the country.

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Developer Jib Felter of AAG Farms, LLC wants to build 44 town house units and retail space for multiple tenants at the northeast corner of 133rd Street and Black Bob Road. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026 In 2022, 36 people were killed, 24 of them children, in a massacre at a childcare center in the northeast, believed to be the country’s deadliest incident of its kind. Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026 The Rutgers product landed in the northeast during a time the Liberty, the WNBA and New York as a whole experienced turmoil. Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026 The cafeteria in the new Fanning Center that overlooks the field from the northeast corner of the stadium will be repurposed on game days into a premium space called the Wreck Deck. Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the northeast

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“The northeast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20northeast. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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