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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of south-central Connecticut north-northeast of New Haven. Settled in 1661, it was once a center of the silverware industry.
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Mary McGarry Morris was born in Meriden, Connecticut in l943, and raised in Rutland, Vermont with three younger brothers.
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Lamont, whose anti-war views made him a darling of liberal bloggers, huddled with his family at a hotel room in Meriden near his campaign headquarters after a frenetic round of final campaigning around the state.
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At weekends I'd hitchhike, not home to see my parents in Meriden, but to The Boyfriend's squalid bedsit in Coventry.
Archive 2005-10-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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At weekends I'd hitchhike, not home to see my parents in Meriden, but to The Boyfriend's squalid bedsit in Coventry.
Turning Antique! Sharon Bakar 2005
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Days after the election of the coalition government, a group of local Travellers moved onto a plot of green belt land in the so-called Meriden Gap.
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The victim in this morning's fatal accident in Woodbury has been identified as a Meriden woman.
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It's in Meriden which is kind of, sort of, on the way to work.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2004
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26 October 2010 2:18PM the author of this article suggests that: "Days after the election of the coalition government, a group of local Travellers moved onto a plot of green belt land in the so-called Meriden Gap."
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That could mean more contracts for small companies such as Meriden, Connecticut-based Protein Sciences Corp, which failed last month to convince an advisory Food and Drug Administration panel that it had proved its experimental influenza vaccine was safe.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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I know it by this same reason, that I bought a lot myself from a house in Connecticut, a town called Meriden, where they make almost nothing else but clocks -- where they make 'em by steam, and horse-power, and machinery, and will turn you out a hundred or two to a minute. "
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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