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southwestern

American  
[sauth-west-ern] / ˌsaʊθˈwɛst ərn /

adjective

  1. situated in, coming from, or proceeding toward the southwest.

  2. Southwestern, of or relating to a region traditionally known as the Southwest in a country, continent, etc.


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"Widespread tropical nights" are also forecast in southwestern Spain from Wednesday, with temperatures peaking from Wednesday to Friday at between 36C and 38C, it wrote on X.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

One woman from Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, a 53-year-old homemaker, said she arrived in Mecca earlier this month after a three-day bus journey through Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

As part of a scheduled stop at Bordeaux in southwestern France, the operator said it had advised French health authorities of the situation.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

That outbreak took place in Epuyén, a village in southwestern Argentina that’s close to the border with Chile, where the Andes virus is also endemic.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

He had grown up in Monte- sano, a foggy little logging town on the Chehalis River in southwestern Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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