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northern

[nawr-thern] / ˈnɔr ðərn /
ADJECTIVE
northerly
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ADJECTIVE
pertaining to the north
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By 1:47 a.m., it was at the northern end of the crossing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

"He couldn't or didn't want to come," Ruben Lozano, a 73-year-old from the northern province of Santa Fe, said on a recent visit to the capital.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

At my polling place in Yonkers, N.Y., just across the northern border of the Bronx, I experienced something similar to what Free Expression contributor Howard Husock described earlier in the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Many northern and western areas will stay dry though with early fog lifting to leave patchy cloud and sunny spells.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

As a child on farms in northern Minnesota, I had worked with workhorse teams—mowing and raking hay, cleaning barns with crude sleds and manure forks—and in the summer we would sometimes ride these workhorses.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen


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