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Coos

American  
[koos] / kus /

noun

  1. a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.


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The Coos Forest Protective Association has said helicopter bucket drops have reduced fire activity near the top, while sprinklers and containment lines have been set up around the base.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

In this research, Rivers examined snags near Coos Bay in a pair of study sites that total 7.5 square kilometers in area.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

“I knew we were making history,” Walsh told The World newspaper of Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2010.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

Coos County — all 1,800 square miles of it — is the northernmost county in New Hampshire.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2023

Besides these strangers, the rugged county of Coos, in which we were, was represented by half a dozen wood-cutters, who had slain a bear in the forest and smitten off his paw.

From Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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