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- noun One of the
large lakes inNorth America or East Africa.
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Examples
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How far, now, Arrowhead, do you make us, by your calculation, from the bit of a pond that you call the Great Lake, and towards which we have been so many days shaping our course? "
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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-- If not Father, the Americans will laugh at us, and say our Great Father, who is beyond the Great Lake is a coward Father.
History of New Brunswick Peter Fisher 1815
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Mukulu, "or Great Lake, meaning, by this, Lake Shirwa; and the guide took them round a terribly rough piece of mountainous country, gradually edging away towards a long marsh, which from the numbers of those animals we had seen there we had called the Elephant Marsh, but which was really the place known to him by the name" Nyanja Mukulu, "or Great Lake.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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From Daniel Burnham's vision of a lakefront that is "forever open, clear and free," to modern-day protests against threats to the Lake such as Asian Carp or pollution from BP's Whiting refinery, Chicago's leaders have long championed our Great Lake.
Jack Darin: The End of An Era: MWRD Votes to Disinfect Chicago River Jack Darin 2011
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The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 required EPA to issue by 2005 recreational beach criteria "for the purpose of protecting human health" at coastal and Great Lake beaches.
Steve Fleischli: EPA Proposal Allows 1 in 28 People to Get Sick at U.S. Beaches Steve Fleischli 2012
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From Daniel Burnham's vision of a lakefront that is "forever open, clear and free," to modern-day protests against threats to the Lake such as Asian Carp or pollution from BP's Whiting refinery, Chicago's leaders have long championed our Great Lake.
Jack Darin: The End of An Era: MWRD Votes to Disinfect Chicago River Jack Darin 2011
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The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 required EPA to issue by 2005 recreational beach criteria "for the purpose of protecting human health" at coastal and Great Lake beaches.
Steve Fleischli: EPA Proposal Allows 1 in 28 People to Get Sick at U.S. Beaches Steve Fleischli 2012
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From Daniel Burnham's vision of a lakefront that is "forever open, clear and free," to modern-day protests against threats to the Lake such as Asian Carp or pollution from BP's Whiting refinery, Chicago's leaders have long championed our Great Lake.
Jack Darin: The End of An Era: MWRD Votes to Disinfect Chicago River Jack Darin 2011
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From Daniel Burnham's vision of a lakefront that is "forever open, clear and free," to modern-day protests against threats to the Lake such as Asian Carp or pollution from BP's Whiting refinery, Chicago's leaders have long championed our Great Lake.
Jack Darin: The End of An Era: MWRD Votes to Disinfect Chicago River Jack Darin 2011
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The oil didn't make to that Great Lake, but it did foul 30 miles of the Kalamazoo and force some residential evacuations because of concerns about air quality.
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