southern

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When you think of America’s trade with its neighbors, you probably think of car parts and tomatoes driven across the southern border with Mexico and oil piped across the northern border with Canada.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

The southern house mosquito, known as culex quinquefasciatus, is the region’s most common vector of West Nile virus, according to the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

Four years after I was born in Marbella, Spain, we moved to a small, two-story brick house in Bournemouth, along England’s southern coast.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

There was fierce fighting along the frontier during that conflict and unprecedented Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan cities, including the capital and southern Kandahar where the Afghan Taliban's supreme leader is based.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

This was considered an awkward interruption, disrupting as it did the critical debate over the assumption and residency questions with an inflammatory proposal that several southern representatives immediately denounced as mischievous meddling.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis