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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 When heavy rain occurs, there is a risk of flooding, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone regions. Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025 When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region. Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025 According to scientists, a molecular dipole arises when a molecule has partial positive and partial negative charge regions, giving the molecule an overall polarity that points in a specific direction. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025 At the time, and in the next nearly two years, the Kansas City region also experienced the gruesome abuse and neglect deaths of three children ages 4 to 6, including one boy who fell from a 17th floor apartment window in November 2023. Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for region
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Noun
  • Other Notable Winners NBC’s Saturday Night Live earned recognition beyond its anniversary special, taking home three technical awards in areas like set design, lighting, and sound.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The plaintiffs argued the displacement was motivated by a desire to limit readers' access to books with viewpoints that are unpopular and controversial in the area.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • With his neck tattoos and a goal celebration based on an anime character, Igor Jesus is a hard man to miss.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Love Island star also added red opera gloves and a neck scarf.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Linebacker Christian Rozeboom was able to chase Etienne down the field, but that run essentially put the Jaguars in the red zone after one play in the series.
    DIAMOND VENCES, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Rip currents are the deadliest of surf-zone dangers, making up the majority of deaths among beach swimmers every year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • And yet in restructuring Patagonia to ensure that its profits are used to protect wild lands, Chouinard accomplished something remarkable, turning a for-profit corporation with $1 billion in annual sales into one of the biggest environmental philanthropies in the country.
    David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The wildfire has been burning on private land.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • The area is a vast, rural, mountainous tract of forests with a political ethos that resembles Texas more than Los Angeles, San Francisco, the state capital of Sacramento, and other liberal Democratic environs.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Proponents of the plan argued that these states were already majority white and contained large tracts of undeveloped land, making the territory ideal for white-only settlement.
    Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Region.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/region. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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