Gulf of Mexico

¹ Cultural  

1. Part of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by the southeast coast of the United States and the east coast of Mexico.

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Gulf of Mexico ² Cultural  

1. Gulf bordered by the southeast coast of the United States and the east coast of Mexico.

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Example Sentences

Its engines fire and it climbs into the skies over the Gulf of Mexico to cheers and screams in the SpaceX control room.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

North America revenue fell 4% to $2.1 billion, amid lower stimulation activity on U.S. land and in the Gulf of Mexico.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

Chevron is set to conduct exploration work later this year in Egypt, where it holds 9 million net acres in the Mediterranean Sea, and it recently confirmed substantial oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

He unilaterally renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and demanded the media go along with it.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

One summer in the late 1970s, long before Roy Eberhardt was born, a small but powerful tropical storm boiled out of the Gulf of Mexico and came ashore a few miles south of Coconut Cove.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen