New Mexico

noun

1. a state in the southwestern United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). : Santa Fe. : NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.

New Mexico

noun

1. a state of the southwestern US: high semiarid plateaus and mountains, crossed by the Rio Grande and the Pecos River; large Spanish-American and Indian populations; contains over two-thirds of US uranium reserves. Capital: Santa Fé. Pop: 1 874 614 (2003 est). Area: 314 451 sq km (121 412 sq miles) AbbreviationN. Mex.with zip codeNM

New Mexico

1. State in the southwestern United States bordered by Colorado to the north, Oklahoma and Texas to the east, Texas and Mexico to the south, and Arizona to the west. Its capital is Santa Fe , and its largest city is Albuquerque .

Notes

An important center of Native American culture and home to Navajo reservations.

Center of the Los Alamos Research Center, where the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb ) was developed.

Other Words From

• New Mexi·can adjective noun

Example Sentences

New Mexico could not account for more than 12,000 students at the start of the school year, children who were enrolled before the pandemic but never showed up in the fall.

From Washington Post

The happiest place in medicine right now is a basketball arena in New Mexico.

From Washington Post

Separately, researchers have identified a mutation in a spot on the virus called Q677, which initially was detected in variants in Louisiana and New Mexico.

From Washington Post

West Virginia, New Mexico, and Connecticut have also reached more than 10% of their populations with the vaccine.

From Fortune

One this past December, a package arrived at Mora Valley Community Health Services in northern New Mexico.

From Quartz

The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

From The Daily Beast

Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal.

From The Daily Beast

Isaacs recently returned from the New Mexico desert after shooting interior scenes for a new TV mini-series called Dig.

From The Daily Beast

It was great going to New Mexico and shooting this strange western.

From The Daily Beast

Then there is the case of Spaceport America in New Mexico, near the small city of Truth & Consequences.

From The Daily Beast

The independent Moquis are a fragment of the ancient ruling race of New Mexico.

From Project Gutenberg

Absent since her childhood from New Mexico, she knew little about its geography, and could be easily deceived.

From Project Gutenberg

Halted at a pond on the left of the road, 15 miles, where we saw the first oak since we left New Mexico, and this was scrub oak.

From Project Gutenberg

Young Carson joined them, and some days later was back again in the quaint old capital of New Mexico.

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The hunters stayed until early autumn, when their employer decided to go to New Mexico.

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