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northern

[nawr-thern] / ˈnɔr ðərn /
ADJECTIVE
northerly
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ADJECTIVE
pertaining to the north
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Almost a decade after China began curbing coal burning to stop thick winter smog, villagers in northern Hebei province are struggling to afford their heating bills with most gas subsidies now phased out.

From Barron's

His entertainment company, G-Unit Film & Television, will develop three venues in the northern Louisiana city, as announced in a release Monday.

From Los Angeles Times

Elsewhere, the match between Hamburg and Bayer Leverkusen was postponed just two hours before kick-off, the third Bundesliga game cancelled in the space of a week due to wild winter weather across northern Germany.

From Barron's

But inequality is relative, and when civil-rights campaigns took off in the 1960s, northern Catholics had plenty of complaints.

From The Wall Street Journal

After she died in 2024 in northern Spain, aged 117, scientists took samples from her stool, blood, saliva, and urine and compared them with 75 other women from the Iberian peninsula.

From BBC