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or swathe
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as in strip
a long narrow area
The mower cut a swath through the tall grass. A large swath of the country was affected by the hurricane. From the cliffside, we enjoyed a stunning view of the swath of coastline below.
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Recent Examples of swath
The latest pieces of evidence that the wildfire situation is getting worse are the 14 wildfires that destroyed large swaths of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County from January 7 through 31, 2025.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Walls of glass reveal beachfront patios and Pacific vistas, while a swath of custom art and decor by the likes of Roche Bobois, Louis Poulsen, Chabada, Pablo Campos, and Alberto Gálvez is available for purchase at an additional cost.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
The recordings collected by the cameras will then be fed to a team at Colossal that has created a machine-learning algorithm to review massive swaths of acoustic data.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2025
The unsettled weather will begin with a swath of heavy rain, flooding and potentially severe weather from the Southern Plains into the Ohio Valley on May 2, stretching from Texas into southern Pennsylvania.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 May 2025
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Walls of glass reveal beachfront patios and Pacific vistas, while a swath of custom art and decor by the likes of Roche Bobois, Louis Poulsen, Chabada, Pablo Campos, and Alberto Gálvez is available for purchase at an additional cost.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
The recordings collected by the cameras will then be fed to a team at Colossal that has created a machine-learning algorithm to review massive swaths of acoustic data.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2025
The unsettled weather will begin with a swath of heavy rain, flooding and potentially severe weather from the Southern Plains into the Ohio Valley on May 2, stretching from Texas into southern Pennsylvania.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swath
Noun
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The portrait — of a stylish Black couple whose clothes were rendered in colorful strips of duct tape — was his first ever to go to auction.—
Rachel Corbett,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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Word of the knife killings had made its way through the camps, campers who shared the strip of land along Davis’ Second Street with Guillory testified.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
8 May 2025
Noun
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On a day when the Kansas City attack wasn’t at its best, Miller played a key role for a back line that repeatedly came up clutch inside its penalty area.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
9 May 2025
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There have been 403 measles cases confirmed in Gaines County, a rural area about an hour-and-a-half west of Lubbock.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
Noun
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The Kansas City region is home to more than 3,000 unique cultural assets, according to the nonprofit ArtsKC.—
Hannah Wise,
Kansas City Star,
8 May 2025
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Pakistan and India — nuclear-armed rivals sharing a border in a flashpoint region — are trading artillery fire and threats of retaliation as tensions escalate after an Indian attack.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
8 May 2025
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These sightings offer hope that this snake may return to lands it was once pushed out of.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 May 2025
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Super Nintendo World is home to two smaller lands, Super Mario Land and Donkey Kong Country.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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“Swath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swath. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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