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Meanings of northwestern in English

Situated in or oriented toward the northwest.

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Usage of northwestern in English
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Western and northwestern Iran is home to large Kurdish and Azeri minorities.
Reuters
2
The government is doing nothing, said villager Anar Gul in northwestern Pakistan.
Reuters
3
O'Riordan told him that other lone dolphins had appeared around northwestern Europe.
Independent.ie
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They also control a corner of northwestern Syria at the Turkish border.
Reuters
5
The agency said the accident occurred in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.
The Irish Times
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Such was the man who came in behalf of the northwestern company.
Wolf Breed
7
This was the natural highway to southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.
The Second William Penn / A true account of incidents that happe...
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The CAA employee had seen the UFO disappear over the northwestern horizon.
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
9
The city was still located at the northwestern end of the lake.
Dayworld Breakup
10
The mortgage-belt seat covers Brisbane's northwestern suburbs and encompasses some rural areas.
News.com.au
11
Beyond these northwestern counties, in neither inroad, did the Confederate army advance.
Border and Bastille
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Al-Liby was eventually arrested in the northwestern town of Mardan in 2005.
Reuters
13
This ordinance provided that slavery should be excluded from the northwestern territory.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
14
The clatter of helicopter blades echoed across the jungles of northwestern Ecuador.
Wired
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The northwestern army at this time consisted of about ten thousand troops.
General Scott
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Ashecliffe Hospital sat on the central plain of the island's northwestern side.
Shutter Island
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