Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: straddles

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Usage examples:

An avalanche warning was issued for the Sierra Nevada backcountry around Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9511532/california-floods-multistate-storm/

As everyone in tech announces AI in everything and Apple readies its first for next year, Meta's at the company's developer-focused Connect conference straddles both sides at once.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/how-metas-vr-and-ar-could-transform-through-ai/

Asva belongs to a category of solo fund managers who have successfully launched an early-stage fund that straddles North America and Southeast Asia.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rodberger/2023/02/12/entrepreneurs-face-headwinds-from-investment-sector/

Because the district straddles Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, and the two election boards were interpreting the rules in different ways.

Source: https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/1638549/mail-in-ballot-dating-issue-rises-from-the-dead

Biologists Kier Mitchel Pitogo, Aljohn Jay Saavedra, and Ronny Boos discovered the species, Pinalia campanulata, in the Mount Busa Key Biodiversity Area (KBA), which straddles the provinces of Sarangani and South Cotabato.

Source: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/541775/new-orchid-species-boosts-forest-protection-drive-in-south-cotabato

But a series of winter storms has already started refilling the lake, which straddles Kings and Tulare counties, causing residents to evacuate and flooding croplands and ranches.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-04-03/will-l-a-county-sewage-contaminate-tulare-lake-flooding

Hellcat has major ties to Marvel's mystical world, and straddles the line between public superheroism and patrolling the shadows.

Source: https://screenrant.com/marvel-best-costumes-underrated-avengers/

His quarterback rating — 405 — suddenly matched the notorious freeway that straddles the UCLA campus to the west.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-09-03/ucla-football-vs-coastal-carolina-recap

Its first performance occurred ninety years ago this week: on December 19, 1933 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, which straddles the border between Cherokee and Clay counties.

Source: https://jocoreport.com/opinion-north-carolina-song-evokes-wonder/

It straddles that sometimes-uncomfortable gap between "true EV" models and those that have evolved, and there's also the question of whether it's a SUV (as Genesis calls it) or a premium hatch.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/motoring/all-electric-genesis-with-top-end-luxury-and-technology-c-9796358

It straddles two tectonic plates, which are divided by an undersea mountain chain that oozes molten hot rock, or magma.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/world/europe/iceland-volcano-eruption-lava.html

Police said the migrants died while trying to cross illegally into the United States through Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, which straddles provincial and international boundaries and includes regions of Quebec, Ontario and New York state.

Source: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/akwesasne-police-say-body-found-was-man-linked-to-migrant-deaths-probe-1.6498309

The Greenway Downs neighborhood “straddles” both Falls Church City and Fairfax County, as it is located on South Washington Street and Lee Highway outside of the city.

Source: https://www.fcnp.com/2023/04/27/an-inside-look-at-the-little-city-and-its-11-neighborhoods/

The Helmand River flows from the mountains of the central Afghan province of the same name for more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) into Lake Hamoun, which straddles the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/iran-warns-afghanistan-in-water-dispute-over-river-dam/

The number of crossing the 66-mile “swath of dense jungle” which straddles and Panama is projected to nearly double by the end of 2023, potentially reaching 400,000, UNICEF.

Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/06/mexico-491-migrants-compound-more-than-half-children/

Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) spokesman Felix Kulayigye said the six kidnapped were taken towards Virunga National Park, a vast expanse which straddles the border.

Source: https://www.channelstv.com/2023/06/17/militant-attack-kills-37-at-ugandan-school/