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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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson in South Carolina is emerging as one of the Southeast's most dynamic industrial regions. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025 Most human cases have occurred in two regions: northern Arizona, northern New Mexico and southern Colorado; and California, southern Oregon and far western Nevada. Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 18 July 2025 Newsom’s $787 million lawsuit, filed last month in Delaware, concerns a call that the governor had with Trump late on June 6, the day before the president federalized the National Guard to respond to protests following ICE raids in the Los Angeles region. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 July 2025 Another major gap is equity, as many regions remain under-mapped, reinforcing digital divides. Michael Harrell, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for region
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  • The company, which leased the area in 2014, received a key permit from President Joe Biden’s (D) Department of the Interior at the end of 2024.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2025
  • Just over two weeks after deadly flash floods hit Central Texas, the Kerrville city officials announced the number of missing people has dropped to three in Kerr County, the area most devastated by the disaster.
    Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 20 July 2025
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  • He was found unresponsive in his cell, lying on his side with his jumpsuit tied around his neck, according to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 20 July 2025
  • Women were slightly more likely than men to choose less common descriptors like fullness and indigestion, and believe that pain could present in the jaw, neck, or upper back – areas that women more frequently report pain during actual heart attacks.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 July 2025
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  • Violent crime dropped between 37% and 83% in CVI zones nearly a year after its ShotStoppers program launched.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 25 July 2025
  • Extended Mac displays have their own full-screen apps and desktop spaces, too, of course, but the OS still treats them as two pieces of a larger unified desktop environment, whereas iPadOS still treats them as their own little autonomous zones.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025
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  • There’s a certain romanticism that lies at the heart of these remarkable gins, something conjured, perhaps, by that dramatic meeting of land and sea.
    Camille Berry, Vogue, 15 July 2025
  • Driftwood logs pile up along the shore like a sculptural installation, and gray whales are sometimes visible from land in the spring.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 14 July 2025
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  • That could negate the need for costly and invasive methods of GI tract investigation – like endoscopy and computerized tomography (CT) – that can only be used in hospitals.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 July 2025
  • The hospital also had a failing score for urinary tract infections from catheters.
    Scott Schwebke, Oc Register, 12 July 2025

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“Region.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/region. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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