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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

Penn State freshman Gavin McKenna, 18, was arraigned Wednesday and released on $20,000 unsecured bail, according to the State College Police Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

He enrolled at Central State College in Edmond, Okla., now University of Central Oklahoma, to study commercial illustration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

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

“By the time I was enrolled at The Evergreen State College, I was no longer sure about what I wanted. Then I met your dad while he was stationed at JBLM, and...”

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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