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

Example Sentences

Baseball fans in the Pacific Northwest waited 24 years to see their beloved Seattle Mariners earn a chance to compete for the American League pennant.

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Training on his hometown’s sand dunes and in the Pacific Northwest’s windswept rains, Prefontaine broke national records at Marshfield High School and then at the University of Oregon.

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Still today, groups such as the Northwest Front, a white nationalist group founded in 2009 and located in the Pacific Northwest, continue to promote variations of this idea.

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A low pressure system dropping across the Pacific Northwest and into California is bringing the “significant cooling trend,” according to weather service forecasters.

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Matías joined the migrant trail as a teenager, following the harvests — strawberries, celery, broccoli and more — from California to the Pacific Northwest.

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