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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- See New York.
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- proper n. New York City is the largest city in the United States of America. It consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The city is situated on the Atlantic Coast at the mouth of the Hudson River in the northeastern state of New York.
- proper n. Manhattan.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
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In this book, Gerard Mullin and Loren Marks, DC, DACBN, a certified nutritionist in New York City who frequently works with patients with autoimmune disorders, cowrote a chapter in which they discuss some of the dietary guidelines and supplements that can help in fighting the disease.
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Milos Forman (one flew over the Cuckoos Nest and dozens of other movies). deniscampbell Dear New York City weather, YOU'RE KILLING ME
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Each had a huge production lot dominated by barn-like soundstages where the interior scenes of movies were shot, a make-believe New York City neighborhood, and a western town with false-fronted saloons and a dusty main street for exterior shots.
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I was quarantined alongside hundreds of other poor children in New York City who had these and other contagious diseases, such as polio, tuberculosis, and scarlet fever, in the charity ward of the Willard Parker Hospital for Children with Contagious Diseases.
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Indeed, the North American Man/Boy Love Association NAMBLA, an organization that promotes sexual relationships between men and young children, named its New York City chapter after Horatio Alger.
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New York City for the convenience of Hungarian-speaking immigrants.
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At the annual meeting of EDO Corporation stockholders in New York City in 2001, the man who made A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon showed up with a video-camera-carrying assistant.
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I knew from recent postings that she had made it to New York City safely, though the city that she described in her first few alcohol-fueled and exhaustion-drenched diary entries was nothing at all like the city I lived in.
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Meanwhile, a 2007 New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey recently reported that a quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels.
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Neil did not meet with him face to face, however, until the first time the commission met, on February 3, six days after the accident, in the New York City law offices of Rogers & Wells.
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