Adverb It's about 80 miles southwest of here. Noun A mountain range is in the southwest of the country. These plants grow in the Southwest. Adjective the southwest corner of the building
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Adverb
Officials discovered the tracks earlier this month at the Dinosaur Valley State Park in Somervell County, which is about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022 Sakurajima is close to 600 miles southwest of Tokyo and has erupted throughout the centuries, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Global Volcanism Program. Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 25 July 2022 The blaze is a few dozen miles southwest of Yosemite National Park's southern edges, though the park is closer when measured by a straight line. Jason Hanna And Rebekah Riess, CNN, 23 July 2022 Voters in Jamestown Township, Mich., located about 20 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, defeated a funding measure for the Patmos Library earlier this month, stripping 85% of its funding for next year. Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022 He was last seen in Camby, Ind., 13 miles southwest of Indianapolis, Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department officials said. Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2022 The volcano is on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, located about 25 miles southwest of the capital, Reykjavik. Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022 The Pebble mineral deposit is located about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage, near headwaters that support the valuable Bristol Bay salmon fishery. Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2022 The nuclear facility is located in the town of Enerhodar, some 30 miles southwest of the city of Zaporizhzhia, which has remained under Ukrainian control. Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Noun
But $35 million in state funding planned for the aviation academy in the state budget for 2019 was derailed by a need for emergency relief funding after Hurricane Michael devastated southwest Georgia. Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022 Curry Health in southwest Oregon did the same on several busy weekends earlier this year.oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022 DeSmet said some portions of southwest Utah have received anywhere from half an inch to four inches of rain in August. Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022 Drivers in southwest China had difficulties charging their electric vehicles at public charging stations in recent days as many were shut due to the power crunch, drivers said. Raffaele Huang, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 After failing its initial building inspections, a new Wilkerson Elementary in southwest Louisville is expected to welcome students in the coming weeks. Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2022 Residents near 248th Avenue in southwest Naperville are invited to a discussion on the location of noise reduction walls proposed between 95th and 103rd streets. Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2022 And last week, a 13-year-old was fatally shot in southwest Detroit over a cellphone that may have been stolen. Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2022 For two summers, Christian has been hauling his 16 goats around an area on Indianapolis' southwest region, helping land and homeowners such as Robin Sims manage their yard. Grace Hollars, The Indianapolis Star, 28 July 2022
Adjective
The Oswego Village Board recently approved a concept plan for an 811-unit residential development between the area just south of the intersection of Wolf’s Crossing Road and Fifth Street and the southwest corner of Wolf’s Crossing and Roth Road. Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 Now, Garcia’s District 8 office is conducting outreach to find out what residents in the area would like to see at the southwest corner. Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022 The impact caused the Hyundai to hit a tree on the southwest corner of the intersection and catch on fire, Buettner wrote. Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022 Many Iowa farmers say their experiences with the Dakota Access Pipeline, which cut a 350-mile path from the northwest corner to the southwest corner of the state last decade, left them with no appetite for more pipelines. Joe Barrett, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022 Gang investigators were conducting a suppression detail in the southwest corner of the city. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 22 July 2022 Fire Chief Mark Polzin said the southwest corner of the building caved in, likely due to rainwater. Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2022 Now the southwest corner of Greenfield Drive and East Main Street sits empty. Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2022 Generally less than 1 inch for the Willamette Valley and 1 to 2 inches for the I-5 corridor in southwest Washington.oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2021 See More
Word History
First Known Use
Adverb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above