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hemisphere

[hem-i-sfeer] / ˈhɛm ɪˌsfɪər /
NOUN
half
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While U.S. officials said they were still working out details, they said that the larger aim wasn’t to reposition forces within Europe but to allocate them to the Western Hemisphere and the Indo-Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

This all comes as the US has also explicitly shifted its focus away from Europe and towards what it calls the "Western Hemisphere" – the Americas.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

With the war occurring during planting season in the Northern Hemisphere, this has created an acute fertilizer shortage at the time when farmers should be seeding their fields.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Although these pollutants have previously been detected in places like Antarctica and Asia, scientists had struggled to measure them in the air over the Western Hemisphere until this study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

Beyond that, what was the population of the Western Hemisphere in 1491?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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