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region

[ree-juhn] / ˈri dʒən /


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For decades, stimulant medications have been thought to work by directly influencing brain regions responsible for attention.

From Science Daily

The bleak assessment is likely to be echoed in other NHS regions as building winter pressures increase the challenge of trying to find hospital beds for sick patients needing care.

From BBC

He took over a team Freixe had been managing from Switzerland as head of Latin America, combining the regions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beijing has amassed such a formidable arsenal of missiles that concentrating combat planes in one or two well-known locations almost anywhere in the region would put them in danger of being wiped out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Residents of the community were ordered to leave their homes on Christmas Eve as a fierce storm bore down on the region.

From Los Angeles Times