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. James Schuetzler:

   My pilot landed his aircraft and got out, was able to make contact with the woman who told him that she had been shot in the head. It was obvious, too, that she had been shot and was just basically clinging to the border fence where he could go ahead and pass gauze and things like that through first aid stuff for her, once the Border Patrol agents arrived on scene, they had water and medical supplies and were able to pass that through the fence. And thankfully, because of the great partnerships we have out here in eastern and southeastern California and southwestern Arizona, we were able to get a law enforcement and EMS response from the Mexican side of the border.

2. 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.

3. Talia Pan:

   Because of (a) drinking water shortage in the southwestern coastal area in the 1960s, (residents) had to drill deep wells to get drinking water. Because of arsenic in the water, there were cases of Blackfoot disease ... (which if) severe, the only option to save a life is to amputate both legs, because of this, a lot of women lost the opportunity to walk into marriage, walk into a new life chapter on high-heeled shoes ... Because of that history, we hope to create a place in Chiayi County, where people can get married, invoking the fairy tale of Cinderella.

4. 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.

5. Corey Wallace:

   Will it bother China? Probably, but only in so far that it further complicates the projection of Chinese military power into the southwestern maritime domain around Japan's Ryukyu islands.