northwester

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Noun
  • The film stars the gifted André Holland as a theater performer who becomes an amnesiac after suffering a violent blow to the head.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The loss was a big blow for the Kings, who played well without two starters but ultimately squandered an opportunity to move ahead of the Clippers for seventh in the Western Conference playoff race.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Currently, portions of Northern California and southern Oregon are under gale warnings, high surf warnings and hazardous seas warnings, the NWS said.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Nuclear power plants have increasingly been seen as a carbon pollution-free source of electricity that can fill in for solar and wind farms when the sun sets and gales weaken.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The ocean keeps coming because of climate change, sea level rise, nor'easters, hurricanes, et cetera.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • That morning, around 6, authorities found O'Keefe on the ground outside the Canton home just before a nor'easter struck the town with 21 inches of snow.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 May 2023
Noun
  • Due to the previously dry conditions in states like Texas and Oklahoma, strong wind gusts resulted in wild fires in the Southern Plains, leading to the evacuation of some communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico, the Associated Press reported.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
  • For Lake Tahoe: southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Northwester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/northwester. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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