windswept
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At Terminal 5, his aides were windswept, screaming at one another because no one had the wristbands.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—Twenty years ago, Stan and Tammy Higgins moved into a home just outside this Old West railroad town on 3 acres of windswept shortgrass prairie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The song certainly stands out in a sea of windswept ballads and crunchy club anthems.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Standing on the windswept central square of Slavutych, he said that his first, "nuclear" war was against an invisible, odourless poison.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
The peak came into sight; it formed the wide, blunt top of a ridge, huge and broad and windswept.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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