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northern

[nawr-thern] / ˈnɔr ðərn /
ADJECTIVE
northerly
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ADJECTIVE
pertaining to the north
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J. André Lavoie moved to northern Italy five years ago, and bought a hotel in Pontebba, which he has been renovating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Born in 1969 in Rasht in northern Iran, Satrapi arrived in France in 1994 and gained French nationality in 2006.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

A British soldier who was killed in a training exercise in northern Iraq has been remembered as "a lover of the outdoors" and "a devoted family-man".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Led by geology professor Keith Koper, the team reexamined waveform data from the 1979 earthquake along with eight other suspected deep earthquakes that had occurred in northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

In early 1998, Socios en Salud was treating more than a hundred people with MDR in the northern slums of Lima.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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