Northwestern has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Irene Pepperberg, a researcher at Northwestern University, is discovering that a parrot can not only mimic people but also learn the meaning of words. | |
| 2. | "Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China." | |
| 3. | The St. James's Way is a pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, where allegedly the remains of the apostle St. James are buried. | |
| 4. | The objects were discovered July 2 off the coast of the United States in the Pacific Ocean. They were found near the northwestern state of Washington. | |
| 5. | Scientists have unearthed in northwestern Argentina fossils of the earliest-known giant dinosaur, a four-legged plant-eater with a medium-length neck and long tail that was a forerunner of the largest land animals of all time. | |
| 6. | A measles outbreak in the U.S. northwestern state of Washington has state health officials scrambling to contain it. | |
| 7. | The Berber dialect of Arzew, in northwestern Algeria, is now completely extinct. | |
| 8. | In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. | |
| 9. | Sheep walk back to their shelter near the Mont-Saint-Michel, northwestern France, on March 28, 2020, during a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. | |
| 10. | Weaver runs her own real estate firm with a staff of about six people in picturesque Storm Lake, Iowa, a city in the northwestern part of the state with an estimated population of 10,458 people. |