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Anacostia

American  
[an-uh-kaws-tee-uh, -kos-] / ˌæn əˈkɔs ti ə, -ˈkɒs- /

noun

  1. a section of the District of Columbia, in the SE part.


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The DC Water spokeswoman said that historically E. coli levels in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers vary widely and that levels reported downstream “cannot be attributed solely to this incident.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The tent camp in Anacostia was burned to the ground.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

Last fall, the final section of the Anacostia Tunnel System went online.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

Ms. Carnahan was born Jean Carpenter on Dec. 20, 1933, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Anacostia, a working-class neighborhood in the city’s southeast section.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Lights twinkled off the Anacostia River as we crossed the bridge onto Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, the Nationals baseball stadium in the distance.

From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson

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