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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The Stillwater City Council on Tuesday night voted 5-0 to approve the organization’s plans for the new Lakeview campus at the northeast corner of Minnesota Highway 36 and Manning Avenue. Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 7 May 2025 Related Articles The 15-acre parcel, at the northeast corner of SW 65th Ave. Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025 But few of the new buildings in it were as flamboyant as the one that appeared on the northeast corner of 7th Street and Grand Boulevard in 1894. Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2025 The Service said on Sunday that Pryor and the northern Bighorn Mountains in Montana would be affected by the weather, along with the northeast section of the Bighorn mountain range in Wyoming. Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025 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 20 May. 2025.

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