western

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The winter brought unprecedented warmth across the western United States.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

In late March, the western state of Gujarat directed utility Tata Power to restart a facility that runs on imported coal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Together, they focused on the Gofar transform fault, located along the East Pacific Rise off Ecuador's western coast, in an effort to solve a decades-long mystery surrounding these repeating underwater earthquakes.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

They also look for indications that the trade winds in the western Pacific have reversed; signalling that the warming ocean is beginning to influence the atmosphere.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

“We call Spanish a romance language, Kojo, because it, like Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian, originated from Latin, the language spoken in the western Roman Empire.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein