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  • proper noun The Leeward Islands

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Examples

  • Here are the Leewards and the storm is expected to pass just to the north of both of these points.

    CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2008 2008

  • There's a flare-up here that is north of Puerto Rico, also another flare-up here south of the Leewards.

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2005 2005

  • In Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados investment represents a relatively high ratio of national income, but this is far from being the case with the poorer islands of the Windwards and Leewards groups.

    Challenge of the West Indies 1958

  • The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday the depression with top sustained winds of 30 miles per hour (45 kph) was about 175 miles (285 km) east-southeast of the Leewards.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday the depression with top sustained winds of 35 miles per hour (55 kph) was about 235 miles (378 kilometers) east of the Leewards.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday the depression with top sustained winds of 35 miles per hour (55 kph) was about 235 miles (278 kilometers) east of the Leewards.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The Leewards, though, were held up by an entertaining last wicket stand of 71 between Kenroy Peters and Deighton Butler, the highest of the Windwards 'innings.

    Stabroek News Kizan Brumell 2010

  • WICB Four-day First Class Competition … Leewards sitting pretty going into final day - By Kizan Brumell The Leeward Islands need another six wickets to claim an outright victory against W

    Stabroek News Kizan Brumell 2010

  • WICB four-day first-class competition … Leewards 254-5 at stumps on day one - Hodge 61, Cornwall 23*, Shillingford 2 - 73 By Kizan Brumell The Leeward Islands reached 254 - 5 at

    Stabroek News Kizan Brumell 2010

  • The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 captured a visible image of System 93L and the second area of cloudiness and showers east of the Leewards in a satellite image on June 25 at 14: 45 UTC (10: 45 a.m. EDT).

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

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