How to Use geographic in a Sentence

geographic

adjective
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  • Adding Atlanta to the list of targets widens the geographic scope for the guild.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • This week’s chart shows the top results in each of four U.S. geographic regions.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The alerts blast out to anyone in the geographic area of certain cell phone towers in a zone that can be widely defined.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
  • That’s the defining geographic feature of the sea, that its border is shared by many countries—and also the problem.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Such a wide geographic span serves as a reminder that island culture is not limited to the tourist hub of West Maui.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The geographic dispersion meant that the Cherngs needed to control their stores from a distance.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Davidowitz’s research is based in Arizona, which is about the geographic midpoint of the moth’s range.
    — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The exact time changes with the seasons and geographic location.
    — Amaarah Decuir, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Smith promised not to rub it in once geographic sanity is restored.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The larger the geographic area and the longer stretch of time during which records are set, the more likely the conditions represent climate change rather than daily weather.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • Inset map shows the geographic location of sites in eastern Africa.
    — Laura M. MacLatchy, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
  • There's a certain type of rabbit that can wreak havoc on yards no matter the geographic location.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The divide between the Meiteis and the other ethnic groups is cut sharply across political and geographic lines.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • What is the Meaning of the Christmas Pickle? Not only is its geographic origin a, well, pickle, but people can't even agree on the meaning behind it.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The geographic isolation allowed evolution to take its course and now, researchers have compared the lizard to others on the opposite side of the mountains.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
  • All that said, California has some unique environments that might give rise to species that are confined to very small geographic areas in the state.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Now, Russia may have the geographic advantage and stronger numbers.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Laris Karklis, Samuel Granados, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
  • In California, the promise drew students from a wider geographic area but did little to expand racial diversity, the system said in a brief to the Supreme Court.
    — Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • The 272-page volume takes readers across the globe to better understand where their coffee comes from, and what geographic differences mean for the final product.
    — Juliet Izon, wsj.com, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Colorado has been here before and passed the test as a solidly competitive team and — if this still matters to anyone out there — a reasonable geographic fit.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
  • Still, most residents in this rural expanse in California’s geographic center were caught off-guard, not aware of just how much was at stake until the doors were locked.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • Trump holds solid leads across all demographic and geographic groups in the survey data.
    — Dante Chinni, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Like it or not, the geographic spread of workers also has implications for the return-to-office debate, according to Wilke.
    — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Leverage geographic choke points; especially the Strait of Hormuz through which 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports pass.
    — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Even some of the millions of people outside of the eclipse’s path of totality may be able to spot the disappearing clouds the day of — weather and geographic conditions permitting.
    — Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Though several of the actors are either from China or of Chinese descent, the shift in geographic orientation will be extreme to anyone who’s read the books.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The risk is only expected to grow in California and the West, where both wildfires and heat waves have increased in length, intensity and geographic area in recent years.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • There is no real parallel to these geographic divides on the Democratic side.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Obviously our busy lives and the geographic distance are a huge obstacle.
    — Lisa Mogull, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Frederick is Maryland’s largest county by geographic size and sits along the Pennsylvania border about 50 miles north of D.C.
    — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023

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