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or swathe
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as in strip
a long narrow area
The mower cut a swath through the tall grass. A large swath of the country was affected by the hurricane. From the cliffside, we enjoyed a stunning view of the swath of coastline below.
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Recent Examples of swath
The latest pieces of evidence that the wildfire situation is getting worse are the 14 wildfires that destroyed large swaths of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County from January 7 through 31, 2025.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Walls of glass reveal beachfront patios and Pacific vistas, while a swath of custom art and decor by the likes of Roche Bobois, Louis Poulsen, Chabada, Pablo Campos, and Alberto Gálvez is available for purchase at an additional cost.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
The recordings collected by the cameras will then be fed to a team at Colossal that has created a machine-learning algorithm to review massive swaths of acoustic data.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2025
The unsettled weather will begin with a swath of heavy rain, flooding and potentially severe weather from the Southern Plains into the Ohio Valley on May 2, stretching from Texas into southern Pennsylvania.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 May 2025
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Walls of glass reveal beachfront patios and Pacific vistas, while a swath of custom art and decor by the likes of Roche Bobois, Louis Poulsen, Chabada, Pablo Campos, and Alberto Gálvez is available for purchase at an additional cost.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 9 May 2025
The recordings collected by the cameras will then be fed to a team at Colossal that has created a machine-learning algorithm to review massive swaths of acoustic data.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2025
The unsettled weather will begin with a swath of heavy rain, flooding and potentially severe weather from the Southern Plains into the Ohio Valley on May 2, stretching from Texas into southern Pennsylvania.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swath
Noun
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The strip gained rapid popularity in the 1990s for its humorous take on workplace culture, bureaucracy, and managerial incompetence, resonating particularly with tech and engineering professionals.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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The road south from Khartoum was a black tarmac strip through flat scrubland.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
Noun
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On May 8, a hunter discovered human remains on Cedar Mountain, and after alerting authorities about the finding, law enforcement responded to the area and retrieved them, the Kane County Sheriff's Office reported this week.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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The whale had, at most, 180 retinal ganglion cells per square millimeter; humans, meanwhile, have up to about 40,000 in the same area.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Each operates outside the global market, unable to keep pace with Madagascar and other fruitful vanilla-producing regions.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 May 2025
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Moreover, although this plan could indeed have a very minimal effect on the sun’s fusion process, the risks of creating a concentrated debris field in certain regions of space or inadvertently triggering an unwanted chain reaction would remain.—
Aaron Shattuck,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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These sightings offer hope that this snake may return to lands it was once pushed out of.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 May 2025
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Super Nintendo World is home to two smaller lands, Super Mario Land and Donkey Kong Country.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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“Swath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swath. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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