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

  • abbreviation Kansas

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A grass, Saccharum spontaneum, allied to the sugar-cane, very common in India.

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Examples

  • MOST double-headed calves are stuffed; but on the farm of Edd Ellis, at Arkansas City, Kans., is one so much alive that it eats with both its mouths!

    2008 November 2008

  • Spirit AeroSystems, an aircraft parts manufacturer, plans to hire about 200 people in the first three months of this year, for its plants in Wichita, Kans. and Tulsa, Okla.

    Job Openings Tumble In November AP 2011

  • Last May, Defense Secretary Robert Gates traveled to the Eisenhower library in Abilene, Kans., and praised the 34th president for keeping the lid on defense spending during the 1950s.

    A War Within 2010

  • On Wednesday, he will announce at a factory in Kansas City, Kans., that GM has repaid a $6.7 billion U.S. Treasury loan and $1.4 billion in Canadian loans.

    GM Chief to Pay for Chartered Flight to D.C. 2010

  • The evening news filled in the particulars: Dr. George Tiller, a physician who performed abortions in Wichita, Kans., was shot and killed while his wife sang in the choir and he handed out programs at his church.

    Abortion-War Casualty 2009

  • In a 2008 sermon, Ammerman described a CFGC chaplain at Fort Riley, Kans., who demanded the 42 chaplains below him "speak up for Jesus" or leave his outfit.

    Christian Soldiers 2009

  • As McVeigh was escorted from the county jail by federal agents (to cries of "" Baby killer! '') that Friday, another investigative minidrama was unfolding in Herington, Kans., home of a very shaken Terry Nichols.

    Judgment Day 2008

  • You may even remember the events that unfolded in Topeka, Kans., that year.

    Saving Mt. Vernon--And Other National Treasures 2008

  • He grew up in El Dorado, Kans., an oil town in the 1920s that declined sharply in the Depression.

    On His Own 2008

  • Convicted Word Trade Center terrorist Mohammad Salameh, incarcerated at the Leavenworth, Kans., prison targeted for three of the bombs, recently published an appeal for support in an Ontario Islamic newspaper-printing his Leavenworth address.

    Going Postal 2008

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