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- noun a person from the
northwest part of a geographic region
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Examples
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Native Pacific northwesterner Clifford “Lefty” Chambers, who went on to a six-year big-league career 48-53, ERA 4.29, was stationed at Fort Wright.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Native Pacific northwesterner Clifford “Lefty” Chambers, who went on to a six-year big-league career 48-53, ERA 4.29, was stationed at Fort Wright.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Native Pacific northwesterner Clifford “Lefty” Chambers, who went on to a six-year big-league career 48-53, ERA 4.29, was stationed at Fort Wright.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Native Pacific northwesterner Clifford “Lefty” Chambers, who went on to a six-year big-league career 48-53, ERA 4.29, was stationed at Fort Wright.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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So he's an Oregonian, in any case, a northwesterner.
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Sergeant Jack is a husky northwesterner who did his bit in the intelligence section in Seattle and has seen a lot of the Bolsheviki out there.
The Story of The American Legion George Seay Wheat
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But, it is questionable whether vice without the habiliments of virtue, as it appeared in the northwesterner, was not more disgusting than when discovered beneath the Puritan cloak of hypocrisy.
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Englander, the mammon-worshipping New Yorker, or the profane, mercenary, northwesterner, which has not been included in his personal experience.
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John Kitzhaber, who seemed here to be the most logical northwesterner for it, isn't interested (though he says he's open to an advisory role).
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Every once in a while, I'd happen upon a naturally talkative soul, or another displaced northwesterner.
Snickollet 2009
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