region
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Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost was sent to Peru as a missionary in 1985 by the Augustinian order, tasked with transforming the small town of Chulucanas in poverty-stricken Piura region into a Catholic diocese.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
They add that the 20 billion pound investment is a strong signal to the U.K. government on the potential positive impact the project would have in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
“Also, the location: a patch, it’s barely larger than my thumbnail and that’s the region it would protect. Just the size of the patch — nothing else would be protected.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Despite typhoon season usually peaking around September to October, this is likely to raise concerns across a region that has already been battered by back-to-back storms.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Passing a cluster of houses made from the gray stone of the region, we come upon several children who are speaking our language and playing in the street.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Economic activity in affected regions is 1.5 percent lower two years after a heatwave and three percent lower four years after a drought, driven by lower productivity and people relocating, according to ECB estimates.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Several were shut down after Voyager completed its encounters with the outer planets, while others remained active to investigate increasingly distant regions of space.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
The small, heart-shaped turtles are normally found throughout tropical regions of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, with large nesting populations in Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
But the app continued to alert people to missile and drone threats in different regions of Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
It’s thus straightforward to review a region’s big mammals and to test whether the lack of mammal domestication in some regions was due to the unavailability of suitable wild species, rather than to local peoples.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing region
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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Western Europe - Introductory
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