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Pacific Northwest

[ puh-sif-ik nawrth-west ]

noun

  1. an imprecisely defined region of North America that is commonly held to include the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and the Canadian province of British Columbia, with some designations extending the region south into northern California and/or north into Alaska and Yukon: often considered as much a historical, sociocultural region as a geographical one. : PNW


Pacific Northwest

noun

  1. the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Still, at least Macklemore sounds like a white guy from the Pacific Northwest.

There was a logic to it – many of the wines were from the Pacific Northwest, principally from Oregon and Washington state.

In the Pacific Northwest, legalization of recreational use has always felt like a question of when not if.

And white supremacists continue to advocate for a homeland in the Pacific Northwest for “the Aryan peoples of the earth.”

“I took a trip to Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest,” Alpert revealed.

Perhaps the real history of the rise of the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest will never be written.

Both have passed their entire lives in the Pacific northwest and they are at all times loyal to its best interests.

The governor followed up the various matters in behalf of the Pacific Northwest with his usual energy this session.

“Everybody helps” is the motto of the Seattle spirit, and it is just as characteristic of the entire Pacific Northwest.

Key to field identification of andromous juvenile salmonids in the Pacific Northwest.

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