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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast England on the North Sea east-southeast of Newcastle. It was established as a shipbuilding center in the 1300s on the site of a Saxon community.
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- proper noun A
city inTyne and Wear ,England .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port and industrial city in northeastern England
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Examples
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SUNDERLAND, England (AFP) - Sunderland striker Darren Bent has admitted he considered retiring from England duty after being left out of the World Cup.
Soccerway.com 2010
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SUNDERLAND (AFP) - Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck joined Sunderland on a season-long loan, it was announced Thursday.
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SUNDERLAND: Arsenal failed to score for the first time this season as Darren Bent maintained his impressive record against the top teams in the Premier League to earn Sunderland a 1-0 victory.
unknown title 2009
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SUNDERLAND (AFP) - West Ham won for the first time in eight matches as Valon Behrami's first goal for the club sealed a 1-0 victory against Sunderland on Sunday.
Soccerway.com 2008
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Alice in Sunderland is parochial in its focus — but not in content.
Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Alice in Sunderland is a non-fiction comic that connects the work of Lewis Carroll with Sunderland and the north east of England.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Alice in Sunderland is a non-fiction comic that connects the work of Lewis Carroll with Sunderland and the north east of England.
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Alice in Sunderland is a skillful weaving-together of these disparate threads into a sprawling, meandering non-narrative about, well, Sunderland.
Boing Boing 2007
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Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland is probably the single weirdest graphic novel I've ever enjoyed (there's weirder stuff out there, but it overshoots enjoyability).
Boing Boing 2007
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Funny and poignant, thought-provoking and entertaining, traditional and experimental, whimsical and polemical, Alice in Sunderland is a heady cocktail of fact and fiction, a sumptuous and multi-layered journey that will leave you wondering about the magic that’s waiting to be unlocked in the place where you live.
Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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