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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 fighting has displaced 90 percent of the territory's population of roughly 2 million, sparked a hunger crisis and obliterated vast swaths of Gaza's urban landscape.
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Statewide, 59 hospitals have stopped delivering babies in the same time period, creating broad swaths of maternity deserts particularly in rural and low-income communities.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
Real-estate companies accumulate large swaths of contiguous square footage: Vornado owns much of the area around Penn Station, Two Trees developed Dumbo, and Related created Hudson Yards.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025
Protection of public lands has become a hot-button topic in American politics, and over the years some communities and states have pushed back on U.S. Presidents for setting aside swaths of land as national monuments or wildlife refuges.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 May 2025
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Statewide, 59 hospitals have stopped delivering babies in the same time period, creating broad swaths of maternity deserts particularly in rural and low-income communities.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 21 May 2025
Real-estate companies accumulate large swaths of contiguous square footage: Vornado owns much of the area around Penn Station, Two Trees developed Dumbo, and Related created Hudson Yards.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025
Protection of public lands has become a hot-button topic in American politics, and over the years some communities and states have pushed back on U.S. Presidents for setting aside swaths of land as national monuments or wildlife refuges.
—Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swath
Noun
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The road south from Khartoum was a black tarmac strip through flat scrubland.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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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
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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Avoiding areas with a lot of tree coverage or power lines.—
Alyssa Hui-Anderson,
Verywell Health,
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
Noun
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Huntersville’s land use map for future development designates the site as an employment center, not for housing, James said.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
28 May 2025
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That presumably includes the plan to build a museum, sculpture garden, visiting artist residences and a space for community engagement on a 2.5-acre parcel of vacant land dotted with scrub not far from the national park.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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“Swath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swath. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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