Definition of regionnext
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as in area
a part or portion having no fixed boundaries if you look in the upper left region of the sky, you can see the constellation Orion

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as in neck
a broad geographical area corn is mostly grown in the central regions of the country

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Recent Examples of region The housing market would begin to falter; home prices in many regions would fall and fewer properties would go to market. Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026 Social media posts depicting dirty vehicles come from as far north as the Chicago region. Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 18 Feb. 2026 Investigators are working to determine the cause of a house fire that killed six members of a family in Florida's Big Bend region on Tuesday morning. Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026 The researchers also noticed that the GEMs seemed stuck in certain regions of the cell. Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for region
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  • AccuWeather forecasters warned that the risk of thunderstorms in northern portions of the Central Valley, along with coastal Southern California, could trigger flash flooding and tornadoes in some areas.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The 30-year-old Somali American, who also co-owns a Mediterranean restaurant in the same area experiencing similar economic tribulations, described his coffee shops as local melting pots for Muslims and non-Muslims, East Africans and White people.
    Yahya Salem, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
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  • The Punjab provincial government required motorbike riders to install a safety rod between their handlebars to keep kite strings stretched across roads from getting tangled around their necks — a past cause of injury and death.
    Betsy Joles, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Feb. 2026
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  • The Biden administration planned to expand slow zones off the East Coast to protect the whales.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The Milan-Cortina Games are the most widespread in history, with sports scattered across seven zones and athletes living in six Olympic villages.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
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  • An alternative, audacious vision for a new Bears stadium is one that starts with the vacant land on the South Side where the Michael Reese hospital once stood.
    David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And with large tracts of government land outside town, there's plenty of room for more camps.
    Michael Ruiz , Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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  • These proposals are backed and bankrolled by out-of-state interests, including New York hedge funds, seeking to fundamentally remake vast tracts of Florida without playing by local rules or paying the full costs of growth.
    Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Can drinking a cup of steaming hot water improve your digestion and keep things moving along in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract?
    Julia Ries Wexler, Outside, 4 Feb. 2026

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“Region.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/region. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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