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western

[wes-tern] / ˈwɛs tərn /
ADJECTIVE
situated or toward the west
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The director of the FBI and his longtime girlfriend, country western singer Alexis Wilkins, announced their looming nuptials on social media over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Nepal floods would also put "a huge amount of pressure" on western countries to increase financial support for climate disaster recovery, said Ajay Mathur, a former Indian government negotiator.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

On platform one, a train shuttling between eastern and western Ukraine arrives a few minutes late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Harold Bloom wrote that “no other living American novelist . . . has given us a book as strong and memorable. . . . It is the ultimate western, not to be surpassed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

They were ahead of us now, lighting the western horizon every night —American artillery, Peter told us.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo




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