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- adjective Of, facing, situated in, or related to the
north-west - adjective of a wind
blowing from the north-west; north-westerly
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Examples
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The Tijuana cartel controls the north-western part of Mexico and the smuggling routes into San Diego.
Safety in lakeside 2009
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The Tijuana cartel controls the north-western part of Mexico and the smuggling routes into San Diego.
Safety in lakeside 2009
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Book Description: Set in north-western Queensland, in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria paints a portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, the land's original inhabitants.
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It's a big site – 100 pitches, 46 with electric hook-up – but the joy of this north-western part of the New Forest is that, even in mid-summer, you can walk five minutes from the site and find yourself in a secluded spot that could be miles from anyone.
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The 56-year-old former property registrar from the north-western region of Galicia led his party to its greatest victory, outdoing his only predecessor as a PP prime minister, José Maria Aznar.
Mariano Rajoy: Spain's new leader who led his party to its greatest victory 2011
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Book Description: Set in north-western Queensland, in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria paints a portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, the land's original inhabitants.
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Australian-born novelist Jules Watson established a reputation as an exciting new writer of Celtic historical fiction with her Dalriada Trilogy, set amidst the conflict between Picts, Romans and Gaels in what is now north-western Scotland.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 1 2009
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Australian-born novelist Jules Watson established a reputation as an exciting new writer of Celtic historical fiction with her Dalriada Trilogy, set amidst the conflict between Picts, Romans and Gaels in what is now north-western Scotland.
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The Tijuana cartel controls the north-western part of Mexico and the smuggling routes into San Diego.
Safety in lakeside 2009
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The town subsequently became a trading post (gold and silver-mining) and for almost three centuries was the most important commercial center of a vast frontier area: north-western Mexico.
El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona 2009
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