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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northern China east-northeast of Beijing in Liaoning province.

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Examples

  • The brothe r of dissident Liu Xiaobo said that as of Saturday night, authorities had arranged a meeting for Sunday in Jinzhou, the northeastern city where Liu is imprisoned.

    World Watch 2010

  • He was worried that the concubines might harm his son, so he sent him away to boarding school in Jinzhou, which is how my mother met him, when she was seven and he was twelve.

    WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

  • He was worried that the concubines might harm his son, so he sent him away to boarding school in Jinzhou, which is how my mother met him, when she was seven and he was twelve.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • He was worried that the concubines might harm his son, so he sent him away to boarding school in Jinzhou, which is how my mother met him, when she was seven and he was twelve.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • Major successful appraisals came from multiple discoveries from first half of this year, namely Jinzhou 20-2N and Shijiutuo Uplift area, with the latter becoming the Company's new reserve growth area.

    unknown title 2009

  • It's Liu Xiaobo's fault, he sits in Jinzhou Prison making controversy, his Nobel prize a lamp that keeps China from sleep.

    On China not buying salmon from Norway Roberto C. Garcia 2011

  • It's Liu Xiaobo's fault, he sits in Jinzhou Prison, writing poems on toilet paper with some charcoal he's procured.

    On China not buying salmon from Norway Roberto C. Garcia 2011

  • It's Liu Xiaobo, he sits in Jinzhou Prison, blame him.

    On China not buying salmon from Norway Roberto C. Garcia 2011

  • In mid-October minor seepage was still being reported at Bohai Bay's Jinzhou 9-3 West oil field, where one of Cnooc's subsidiaries is the operator, following leaks earlier this year at a Bohai Bay platform owned by Cnooc and operated by ConocoPhillips .

    Cnooc Taps Li Fanrong as CEO Joanne Chiu 2011

  • I think about the weight of those words—how they are silenced by the weight of stone, by the weight of 11 years in a Jinzhou prison cell, weight of compressed dark stone in angled 8 by 10.

    For Liu Xiabo (in his voice) Roberto C. Garcia 2011

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