Chesapeake
Americannoun
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(italics) a U.S. frigate boarded in 1807 by the British, who removed part of its crew and impressed some members into British service: captured by the British in naval battle near Boston in 1813.
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a city in SE Virginia.
Example Sentences
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“The fiduciary point is the part most people miss, and it sounds like a technicality until it’s your data,” Jeff Judge, CFP at Chesapeake Financial Planners, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026
Hampton Roads is under regulatory pressure to release less of those pollutants, which harm aquatic life in the Chesapeake Bay, and the proposed $400 million investment would fund a new facility for removing them.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
A pack of kids would gather on the athletic fields in Easley’s hometown of Chesapeake, Va., and a football would be tossed into the air.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025
Marks told Barron’s in 2021 that he owns a Danish-built sloop named Linnea that he had been fixing up for years, and sailed it in the Chesapeake Bay.
From Barron's • Oct. 7, 2025
“You reckon we can draw Chesapeake Bay and the Kingdom of Accomac?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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