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The sailors looked windswept and tired.
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Anythink’s new Nature Library is a 33,000-square-foot building that sits on a grassy, windswept 15 acres in Thornton — just next to the 140-acre Aylor Open Lands, and across the street from a group of houses at the intersection of East 136th Avenue and Newport Street.
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John Wenzel, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
However, more adventure-minded travelers will love the independence of a car, available for rent from Paradise Jeep Rentals in Great Harbour, to access hilltop viewpoints of the craggy, windswept north coast, or rental homes hidden in the island's interior.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Embedded in its arpeggiated pads, chimes, and windswept atmospherics is the same chillmaxed peak-time rhapsody favored by peers like Nick León and Facta, whose ever-consistent imprint with K-Lone, Wisdom Teeth, released this track.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 15 Apr. 2026
The windswept community is home to historic mill houses and a new low-income housing complex right next to where the turbine components will be stacked and assembled.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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John Wenzel, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
However, more adventure-minded travelers will love the independence of a car, available for rent from Paradise Jeep Rentals in Great Harbour, to access hilltop viewpoints of the craggy, windswept north coast, or rental homes hidden in the island's interior.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Embedded in its arpeggiated pads, chimes, and windswept atmospherics is the same chillmaxed peak-time rhapsody favored by peers like Nick León and Facta, whose ever-consistent imprint with K-Lone, Wisdom Teeth, released this track.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 15 Apr. 2026
The windswept community is home to historic mill houses and a new low-income housing complex right next to where the turbine components will be stacked and assembled.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Windswept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windswept. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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windswept
adjective
wind·swept
-ˌswept 
: disturbed by or as if by wind
a windswept beach
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