American cockroach

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a large, reddish-brown cockroach, Periplaneta americana, found originally in the southern U.S. but now widely distributed.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
But you are English, or you are American; and men of those countries never misunderstand a woman, even if she is in trouble.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson