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a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
a top researcher in the area of human genetics
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Recent Examples of areas
Tabor and Sheriff Jay Cantrell both said the new quarantine space, along with other spaces being added for medical care, the intake and release of detainees, and court proceedings may allow the sheriff's office to open some areas to new programming.
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Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
Redefine and streamline your customer engagement and product experience by deploying AI systems in high-impact areas such as order-to-cash, procure‑to‑pay, and supply chain orchestration.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
Systems can be configured to identify signs of structural weaknesses, gas leaks, and other potentially dangerous stimuli emerging in hazardous areas and send data-rich alerts to operators suggesting a response.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Making women's voices heard While the exodus of rural women continues, some women stay put or return to rural areas to try to improve them.
—Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
During heavy rain, flooding is possible, especially in low-lying and flood-prone areas.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
For instance, the Bangladesh delta, one of the most fertile and densely populated areas in the world, is already experiencing problems, including salinity intrusion, rising sea levels and the loss of arable land.
—Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
The torrential rains and strong winds caused severe flooding that left several rural communities isolated and damaged buildings, roads, crops and infrastructure in poor areas that had already been hit by Hurricane Oscar last year.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Her primary areas of study are hunter-gather societies, technological change, and human-material interactions most broadly.
—JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2025
Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2025
Redefine and streamline your customer engagement and product experience by deploying AI systems in high-impact areas such as order-to-cash, procure‑to‑pay, and supply chain orchestration.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
Systems can be configured to identify signs of structural weaknesses, gas leaks, and other potentially dangerous stimuli emerging in hazardous areas and send data-rich alerts to operators suggesting a response.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Making women's voices heard While the exodus of rural women continues, some women stay put or return to rural areas to try to improve them.
—Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
During heavy rain, flooding is possible, especially in low-lying and flood-prone areas.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
For instance, the Bangladesh delta, one of the most fertile and densely populated areas in the world, is already experiencing problems, including salinity intrusion, rising sea levels and the loss of arable land.
—Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
The torrential rains and strong winds caused severe flooding that left several rural communities isolated and damaged buildings, roads, crops and infrastructure in poor areas that had already been hit by Hurricane Oscar last year.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Her primary areas of study are hunter-gather societies, technological change, and human-material interactions most broadly.
—JSTOR Daily, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for areas
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State officials have submitted applications to have FEMA either buy or elevate more than 400 homes in known flood zones since February, which if granted, would add up to more than $200 million in funding.—
Amber Gaudet
Updated October 31,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Oct. 2025
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Tingshu Wang | Reuters China’s Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, is about to allow self-driving taxis to operate throughout the city, ending years of pilot zones and tight limits.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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The nonprofit foundation, Spirit of Children, brings Halloween to kids in hospitals across the country and also raises funds for the facilities’ child life departments.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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Chapter Two resets everything back to the start of the day to show more departments.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
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Southern Peru boasts regions like Puno and Cusco that offer a breadth of culture, history, and adventure in the Andes.—
Ally Jaksen,
Outside,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Level 3 advisory applies to the country as a whole, but some areas of Jamaica are under a Level 4 advisory, meaning the department warns Americans not to travel to those regions at all.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Does this explain, perhaps, why Hopkins would then traffic back and forth between the grand realms of British classical theatre and the badlands of the movies, over the years, with an ease denied even to Olivier?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Jack is curious about life’s mysteries and wants to learn about the elements that make up all the realms.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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And, of course, Amherst had freed Black people, and I was told that there were Black people who were working for the family outside of the house, in the fields and gardens.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Sixty leading experts from a range of fields, including medicine, public health, criminology, law and the technology sector, convened earlier this year to create an action plan to address the problem.—
NPR,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Of course, a good number of researchers and critics have warned of the dangers of using AI in these consequential domains.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains.—
Alex Reisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In his own secret lair, Vilgefortz learns from Istredd that Ciri possesses a the power to collapse space and time — not only for the Continent, but for other spheres of reality.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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These are frequently shaped into nested spheres—though there are many exceptions, including intricate axial symmetries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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My nearly two-year-old son recognizes that late-morning stroller walks might be an opportunity for a croissant and makes demands accordingly.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Langevin has allowed one run in three games but has issued five walks and Colleran has five strikeouts in four innings.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Areas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/areas. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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