American
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the United States of America or its inhabitants.
an American citizen.
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of or relating to North or South America; of the Western Hemisphere.
the American continents.
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of or relating to the Indigenous peoples of North and South America.
noun
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Americans
plural
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a citizen of the United States of America.
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a native or inhabitant of North or South America.
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an Indigenous person of North or South America.
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a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and no rear truck.
adjective
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of or relating to the United States of America, its inhabitants, or their form of English
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of or relating to the American continent
noun
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a native or citizen of the US
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a native or inhabitant of any country of North, Central, or South America
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the English language as spoken or written in the United States
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The AI boom has given American factories a nice problem to have: more orders than they can handle.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Target, Barclays, Bausch and Lomb and American Express have all posted FDE listings in recent months, hunting for people who can turn “ambiguous goals into production agentic systems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
“Battling the nationwide homeless epidemic is the hardest job in American government,” Jackson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
These include "barriers that undermine American trade and investment and practices that pose a threat to US national security and foreign policy interests", a US statement said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
An hour later, Clark Air Base in Pampanga, an American military base on the northern shore of Manila Bay, is bombed.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
"We see things daily that just put fear in the hearts of Americans," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Healthcare costs are a particular concern as Americans are living longer, and those expenses can add up as people get older.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, the hiring rate was little changed at 3.4% in September from 3.3% in August, with about 5.4 million Americans landing new jobs during the month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Sheen — born Ramón Estévez, the son of a Spanish émigré who worked in an Ohio factory — argues that Americans are inherently hopeful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Within a day or two of meeting the Americans, we found ourselves—Mutti, Karli, me and the choir schoolchildren—in a camp, a sort of refugee camp, for “displaced persons,” that was what they called us.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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