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• four-corners
  four-corners

  noun

  a place where roads cross at right angles; a crossroads.
• Four Corners
  Four Corners

  noun

  a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.

four-corners

¹ American  

[fawr-kawr-nerz, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˈkɔr nərz, ˈfoʊr- /

Or four corners

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a place where roads cross at right angles; a crossroads.

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Four Corners ² American  

noun

1. a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.

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It’s a strategy that’s similar to the four-corners offense in basketball before the shot clock or a football team taking a knee at the end to prevent their opponent from getting the ball back.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021

This channel type is rare worldwide but is common in the Colorado Plateau region which is a broad flat area near four-corners where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Atkinson will not bring a set system with him to Brooklyn, no definitive triangle or four-corners offense.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2016

For the land will never again stand at the crossroads, the four-corners of the civilized world.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Henry Van Dyke

For myself, if I were to become a merchant, I would choose a shop at a four-corners in the country, and I would stock from shoe-laces to plows.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell

By moving and using this wild potato, they may have begun the earliest stages of domestication while also building a distinctive cultural tradition in the Four Corners region.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026

That is four times the integrated emissions from the Permian Basin and Four Corners hotspots in the United States, two of the most notorious oil and gas methane sources on Earth.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

The agency began surveillance for hantavirus diseases in 1993 during an outbreak of severe respiratory illness near the Four Corners region of the US where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah all meet.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025

Fire weather alerts were most prevalent in the Pacific Northwest and the Four Corners region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024

He knew The Four Corners of the World wasn’t just a book; it was the bedtime book that sent him off on adventures that folded into a world of dreaming.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia