Synonyms for southwestern
south·west·ern

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1. Southwestern, West Saxonadjective

   a dialect of Middle English

   Antonyms:
   north, eastern

2. southwest, southwestern, southwesterlyadjective

   situated in or oriented toward the southwest

   Synonyms:
   southwest, southwesterly

   Antonyms:
   north, eastern

3. southwesternadjective

   of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado

   Synonyms:
   southwest, southwesterly

   Antonyms:
   eastern, north

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1. List of paraphrases for "southwestern":

   southwest, south-western, south-west, sw, sud-ouest, southwesterly, west

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1. Corey Wallace:

   It further complicates the projection of Chinese military power into the southwestern maritime domain around Japan's Ryukyu islands.

2. Tony Evers:

   There is simply not ample evidence to support the president's contention that there exists a national security crisis at our Southwestern border, therefore, there is no justification for the ongoing presence of Wisconsin National Guard personnel at the border.

3. Rick Scott:

   Vice President Pence said in Fort Myers. The president monitored Irma over this past weekend from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Nearly half of Florida was engulfed by Irma, which left flooded streets, damaged homes and displaced residents in its wake. Florida's southwestern coast is a haven for retirees seeking warm weather and beautiful sunsets across the Gulf of Mexico. Many communities are still cleaning up or without power or air conditioning. In Lee County, which includes Cape Coral and Fort Myers, the Florida Emergency Management Agency said 66 percent of the area's 290,000 electrical customers were still without power Wednesday. Widespread outages led to long lines outside of the relatively few stores, gas stations and restaurants that had reopened. The situation was even worse to the south in Collier County, home to Naples. Days after Irma passed, almost 80 percent of homes and businesses were still without electricity, and floodwaters still covered some communities entirely. As of Thursday morning, the number of homes and businesses without electricity in Florida was 2.69 million, according to the agency. That's 25.6 percent of all customers in the state. We are working hard to get power back on. Our utilities have restored over 4-million homes already.

4. Peter Hotez:

   Poverty is seldom evenly distributed across the country. Poverty clusters in pockets. It clusters in northeastern Brazil, it clusters in northern Argentina, it clusters in southern Mexico, it clusters in southwestern China, well, it's the same thing in the USA. Poverty is clustered in the American South.

5. Pedram Javaheri:

   For a southwestern city which receives 30-50 % of its annual rainfall during its summer monsoons, it is almost unheard of to avoid any precipitation during the summer months, for context, the longest period Phoenix has observed without rainfall was only 160 consecutive days in 1972.