western hemisphere
noun
variants
or Western Hemisphere
: the half of the earth comprising North and South America and surrounding waters
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When Denmark was occupied by the Nazis in 1940, the Danish Ambassador to the United States worked with the US to prevent Greenland from becoming a Nazi foothold in the western hemisphere.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
And the tiny town of Dalton, Georgia, home of the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the western hemisphere and source of about 2,000 jobs, is in the district represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vociferous climate-change skeptic who has nonetheless cheered the factory.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
The 110-year-old, 2,745-foot wharf claims to be the longest fully wooden wharf in the western hemisphere.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Petro, Lula and AMLO are hardly the western hemisphere’s first tyrant-enablers.
—Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
And the tiny town of Dalton, Georgia, home of the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the western hemisphere and source of about 2,000 jobs, is in the district represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vociferous climate-change skeptic who has nonetheless cheered the factory.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
The 110-year-old, 2,745-foot wharf claims to be the longest fully wooden wharf in the western hemisphere.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Petro, Lula and AMLO are hardly the western hemisphere’s first tyrant-enablers.
—Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
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“Western hemisphere.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/western%20hemisphere. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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