Chesapeake
Americannoun
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(italics) a U.S. frigate boarded in 1807 by the British, who removed part of its crew and impressed some members into British service: captured by the British in naval battle near Boston in 1813.
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a city in SE Virginia.
Example Sentences
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Hampton Roads is under regulatory pressure to release less of those pollutants, which harm aquatic life in the Chesapeake Bay, and the proposed $400 million investment would fund a new facility for removing them.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Jeffrey Judge of Chesapeake Financial Planners said he works with clients who are living out exactly what the Society of Actuaries survey describes — and he argued the numbers may actually be optimistic.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
The company, created by the 2024 merger of Chesapeake Energy and Southwestern Energy, is now the nation’s largest natural-gas producer.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
“It’s not just the community that wants answers,” said Jimmy Williams, a YouTube videographer from Chesapeake, Va. “It’s the whole country that wants answers for this beautiful little baby.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
“You reckon we can draw Chesapeake Bay and the Kingdom of Accomac?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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