swath

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In 2019 he ordered a removal of U.S. forces from the country, resulting in a Turkish military operation that took control of a swath of territory along its border with Syria.

From The Wall Street Journal

Last spring, Verizon said it would freeze monthly rates for three years for a large swath of its customers.

From The Wall Street Journal

It has the capital and card experience, including underwriting a swath of consumers, to swallow the program and ambitions to be closer to Apple and its core customer.

From The Wall Street Journal

The agency preventively closed an extensive swath of airspace extending 1,600 nautical miles from the launch site, across the Gulf of Mexico and through part of the Caribbean.

From Salon

Parts of Altadena now resemble a rural town, with scattered houses separated by vast swaths of open space canopied by trees that somehow survived the fire.

From Los Angeles Times