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The evacuation zones include a swath of hillside neighborhoods bordered by the 5 Freeway, Ortega Highway and Avenida La Pata.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Though the topic of “Nature’s Magicians” is ostensibly leaves, his book cuts a much wider swath than its nominal subject would suggest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A larger swath of Malibu was under an evacuation warning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

They had done a similar thing In Afghanistan two years earlier, and if their plot had worked, they would have held a swath of a key region between Turkey and Pakistan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The father sat by the window quietly and followed the movements of a gardener, who was mowing first one, then another, darkening swath across the lawn.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Many pointed particularly to an inability to put out the fires that have ravaged vast swaths of Borneo and Sumatra islands since July.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

The options are not attractive: avoid vast swaths of coastline, or live with a poorly understood risk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

County and includes the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale as well as rural swaths of the High Desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Thousands of auto industry workers in Germany protested against huge swaths of job cuts and state industrial policy Monday, following a call to mobilize by labor union IG Metall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Summer was unreal—whole swaths of the city became fashion shows, and the avenues were nothing but runways for the youth.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates