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- adjective Without
regions . - adjective Not
confined to a single region.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He would either need an American DVD player or a special one set up to be "regionless" or "multisystem" to play DVDs from other regions.
American Thinker 2009
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So for the moment, while the media focuses on the pronunciation of a Puerto Rican's judge's last name, I'll take this lull in Mid-East activity to highlight an aspect of this regionless region that deserves credit: the music.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Six Degrees of the Middle East 2009
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The DVD is regionless, so I'm guessing Virgin bought a stack of imports and sold them over here, which they do often (they did just recently with Bloc Party's Silent Alarm, before it was released here).
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Her childhood had known nothing of fairyland, and now, in this tardy awakening of the imaginative part of her nature, she thought sometimes of Capri much as a child is wont to think of the enchanted countries, nameless, regionless, in books of fable.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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It reminded her a bit of Cary Grant’s oddly regionless speech.
Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006
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A slight, fair young man with no pretensions to good looks, he spoke a grammatical, fairly regionless English and had, he said in answer to Richard’s question, been carefully tutored by his mother before going to a charity school.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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A slight, fair young man with no pretensions to good looks, he spoke a grammatical, fairly regionless English and had, he said in answer to Richard’s question, been carefully tutored by his mother before going to a charity school.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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