region
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One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
The inhabitants of a district.
Place; rank; station.
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ...
Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.