western
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Tens of thousands of people looked set to spend another night away from home Monday as a wind-driven fire bore down on the western US city of Reno.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
While it is hard to predict exact amounts of rainfall, western areas will see the most.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
These towering cliffs may have reached roughly a kilometer in height and extended for thousands of kilometers along western North America.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Consuming a few hundred acres, the fire in the Hürtgen Forest, western Germany, was a mere barbecue compared with the conflagrations that have recently threatened Mediterranean tourist spots and burned swaths of Canadian forest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jefferson, it must be remembered, had proposed the abolition of slavery in all the western territories.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
