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State College

American  

noun

  1. a city in central Pennsylvania.


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If not for a late game winner in State College from Arenas, they would’ve dropped all three games played without Baker-Mazara.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

“He’s got his work cut out for him,” said Martin Lewison, associate professor of business management for Farmingdale State College in New York, who is also a Six Flags shareholder.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

In peacetime, it is a small town the size of Sarasota, Fla., or State College, Pa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Other co-authors include Jiangang Liao, professor of public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, and Camille Moeckel, a fourth-year medical student and research associate at Penn State College of Medicine.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

Among the twenty Negro Peace Corpsmen I talked with, a very impressive fellow to me was Larry Jackson, a Morgan State College graduate from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who had joined the Peace Corps in 1962.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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