Americanness
Americannoun
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This is precisely what I think drives those debates about language and who gets the right to claim Americanness — a lack of information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
It has no ideological ax to grind, although it makes a persuasive case for the expansiveness of American poetry as a parallel to the definition of Americanness itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
“And I thought Tim’s Americanness was really interesting to put into that role, and just like with Jon Hamm, I thought, ‘Oh, there’s a constitutional sheriff in there.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025
Gettr played up its Americanness from the beginning, launching on Independence Day.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2023
Except for on the first day of school, the other kids hadn’t seemed that interested in Hanako’s Americanness.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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