northern
Example Sentences
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Storm Dave has caused widespread disruption to road and rail travel in northern areas and led to numerous flood warning being issues, but conditions are expected to ease as Sunday goes on.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
This year's celebrations were dedicated to "people in the south," said Jenny Yazbek al‑Jamal, as she left mass at a church in Beirut's northern suburb of Jdeideh.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
It is close to completing its first production facility on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Understanding how individual rivers respond to warming is challenging because direct measurements in northern Alaska are limited.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
Even though natural plasmas are rare on Earth—other than lightning or the northern lights—man-made plasmas are everywhere.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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