Pacific Northwest

[puh-sif-ik nawrth-west]

noun

1. an imprecisely defined region of North America that is commonly held to include the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and the Canadian province of British Columbia, with some designations extending the region south into northern California and/or north into Alaska and Yukon: often considered as much a historical, sociocultural region as a geographical one. PNW

Pacific Northwest

noun

1. the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies

Example Sentences

Still today, groups such as the Northwest Front, a white nationalist group founded in 2009 and located in the Pacific Northwest, continue to promote variations of this idea.

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A low pressure system dropping across the Pacific Northwest and into California is bringing the “significant cooling trend,” according to weather service forecasters.

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Matías joined the migrant trail as a teenager, following the harvests — strawberries, celery, broccoli and more — from California to the Pacific Northwest.

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Over the last few weeks a persistent low pressure system has been lingering in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia which has kept temperatures cooler across much of California.

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"I think being very transparent about how well it works is absolutely critical," Harold Tobin, Director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, told the BBC.

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