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Recent Examples of regionWhen 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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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