Carolina

[kar-uh-lahy-nuh, kah-raw-lee-nah]

noun

1. a former English colony on the Atlantic coast of North America: officially divided into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.

2. North Carolina or South Carolina.

3. a city in northeast Puerto Rico, southeast of San Juan.

4. Also called the Carolinas. North Carolina and South Carolina.

Carolina

/ ˌkærəˈlaɪnə /

noun

1. a former English colony on the E coast of North America, first established in 1663: divided in 1729 into North and South Carolina, which are often referred to as the Carolinas

Example Sentences

"This basic shape is, by itself, bistable," says Jie Yin, corresponding author of a paper on the work and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University.

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From the South Carolina Lowcountry to the Jersey Shore to the islands of Massachusetts, food banks are seeing year-round workers — teachers, servers, landscapers, fishermen — lining up for help in numbers not seen since the pandemic.

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Employers including Washington law firm Perkins Coie, the Carolina Panthers and others have said they fired employees who made comments or posted online in ways that didn’t match their values.

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Oklahoma was up against stiff competition from Miami and Bill Belichick’s North Carolina.

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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said Thursday he was appointing a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation into the killing of Scott Spivey in a road-rage encounter that prosecutors determined was self-defense.

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