Bloomington
Americannoun
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a city in SE Minnesota.
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a city in S Indiana.
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a city in central Illinois.
noun
Example Sentences
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Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., operates a claw-machine arcade with more than 100 units, plus bubble tea and Korean shaved ice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Federal inspectors detailed multiple instances of mammalian hair found in drugs produced at a Catalent plant in Bloomington, Ind., used in part to manufacture semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Those students operate their own real-estate investment business, called Sample Gates Management, named for the Gothic-style limestone arches that are the gateway to the Bloomington campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Department of Insurance in May filed an administrative action against State Farm General — the subsidiary of the giant Bloomington, Ill., insurer that handles California home insurance — after completing a “market conduct” exam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I mean, it’s less than half of what IU would cost,” which was the state school a couple hours south of us in Bloomington.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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