- present tense form of sweep (3rd person singular).
sweeps
Americannoun
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Pacific Power’s Northern California territory sweeps across 11,292 square miles from the coast to the Nevada border, serving about 46,000 customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
After weeks of unusually warm weather, autumn is finally set to make its presence felt on Tuesday as cooler air sweeps across the UK from the north-west.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Whatever: This is what appeared in the Feb. 20, 1985 edition of the Oakland Tribune, quoting a UC Berkeley professor about a protest against immigration sweeps in the Bay Area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
One especially important clue came from signs of so-called 'genome-wide selective sweeps.'
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
His eyes swept the clearing, then up the edge of the clearing, and in those two sweeps he knew—he knew the clearing and the woods.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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