Definitions
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- n. The capital city of any state, of the United States of America.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the capital city of a political subdivision of a country
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Examples
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About six months ago, Dennis Murray, a Fox News producer, told the Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz of his dismay at having to run even a brief shot of a truck caravan carrying ballots from Palm Beach County, Florida, to the state capital to be counted.
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Manyu Chang, a forest scientist who is the coordinator for climate policy for the state of Paraná, explained the problem with avoided-deforestation credits to me at her office in the state capital of Curitiba.
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Nestled into the warm embrace of the Wasatch Mountains is Salt Lake City, the state capital and a shining gateway for hundreds of thousands en route to a better life.
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The two Morrises got back on the road on Sunday, making their way to Richmond, a commercial and political center that had replaced Williamsburg as the state capital in 1780.
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When he sat before his consoles in the main com-puter room of the San Junipero Sheriff Department, he was locked into a matrix that extended not only throughout the county but to every state capital in the nation, as well as to the main computer banks at the FBI and the Justice Department in Washington.
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Jim Forman and some of the others went on to Montgomery and started organizing and having a series of marches in Montgomery to the state capital before the march actually got the court order to march from Selma to Montgomery.
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