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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of north-central North Carolina near Greensboro and High Point. The original towns of Winston and Salem merged in 1913 and together became a center of tobacco and textile production. Salem, the older of the two, was founded as a Moravian religious community in 1766.
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- noun a city of north central North Carolina
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Examples
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) - Eight former and current Winston-Salem police officers are appealing a judge's decision last week that ordered the release of their statements to a citizens committee reviewing the 1995 beating at the Silk Plant Forest store.
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WINSTON-SALEM - Tony Bennett will headline the opening gala for the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in Winston-Salem on Sept. 10.
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Winston-Salem took advantage of four Kinston errors to score four unearned runs and beat the K-Tribe 4-2 at BB
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WINSTON-SALEM - Winston-Salem police detectives have made a third arrest in a fatal shooting investigation.
Record Article Feed Staff Reports 2010
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WINSTON-SALEM - Winston-Salem police detectives have made a second arrest in a fatal shooting investigation.
Record Article Feed Staff Reports 2010
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Winston-Salem took advantage of four Kinston errors to score four unearned runs and beat the K-Tribe 4-2 at BB
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WINSTON-SALEM - Winston-Salem police detectives have made a third arrest in a fatal shooting investigation.
Record Article Feed Staff Reports 2010
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) - A North Carolina prosecutor says four men who have been charged with burning vacant houses in east Winston-Salem wanted to prevent Hispanics from moving into the structures. reports that two of the men pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including burning a building.
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WINSTON-SALEM - Police are looking for a man they say robbed a Winston-Salem pharmacy Monday evening.
GoTriad Archives 2009
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WINSTON-SALEM - A man charged with threatening the Forsyth County sheriff has been extradited to Winston-Salem.
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