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south

[sauth, sauth, sauth] / saʊθ, saʊθ, saʊð /




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Three days later, on Sept. 19, a second olive ridley laid eggs eight miles south on Huntington Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

People in sub-Saharan Africa experience snake envenoming and death at nearly three times the rate seen in south Asia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Francisco Jose, 32, worked in Madrid and had caught a train south to the region of Andalusia on Wednesday to spend a few days with his parents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Before September, the farthest known northern nest was approximately 700 miles south of Orange County in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

He knew that the San Andreas fault runs north and south for hundreds of miles in California, making that land particularly susceptible to earthquakes.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret


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