the northeast
noun
variants
or the Northeast
: the northeastern part of a country or region
A mountain range is in the northeast of the country.
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The year is 1467, the place, the northeast coast of what would eventually be known as Vancouver Island.
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Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 Feb. 2025
The Dipper will be high in the northeast, with the bowl facing down and to the left.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Since gaining its independence in 1947, India has had to wrestle with the intricate challenge of incorporating the many ethnic movements in the northeast into a new democracy.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
An assessment from the C.I.A. at the time concluded that in some regional bureaus, such as Kharkiv, in the northeast, as many as sixty per cent of the officers were either working directly for Moscow or otherwise carrying out its interests.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 Feb. 2025
The Dipper will be high in the northeast, with the bowl facing down and to the left.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Since gaining its independence in 1947, India has had to wrestle with the intricate challenge of incorporating the many ethnic movements in the northeast into a new democracy.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
An assessment from the C.I.A. at the time concluded that in some regional bureaus, such as Kharkiv, in the northeast, as many as sixty per cent of the officers were either working directly for Moscow or otherwise carrying out its interests.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the northeast
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“The northeast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20northeast. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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