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- proper noun A nickname of the US state of
Missouri .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
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Examples
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The Show Me State will lose a congressional seat this year because of slow population growth.
There Comes a Time When People Just Have to Set Boundaries Danny Yadron 2011
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Such has been the case in Missouri, the Show Me State, where citizen patriots are working to amend the state constitution to return to paper ballots, hand counted, with citizen oversight.
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In the yearbook of Campaign 2006, the Show Me State would earn the dubious superlative “most likely to have voting disputes.”
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In the yearbook of Campaign 2006, the Show Me State would earn the dubious superlative “most likely to have voting disputes.”
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In the Show Me State, we're going to show you the projected winner in the Senate race here, Claire McCaskill.
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ZAHN: Coming up: a pair of Republican senators who are in big trouble -- our next stop is the Show Me State, where actor Michael J. Fox and a tough-talking Democratic candidate have a Republican senator running for his political life.
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It's no stretch to assume that had early voting existed in the Show Me State, it would've kept its "bellwether" status by flipping Blue.
Daily Kos 2009
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(END VIDEO CLIP) HARRIS: CNN's Candy Crowley has the story from the Show Me State, straight ahead in the NEWSROOM.
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