Connecticut

American  

[kuh-net-i-kuht] / kəˈnɛt ɪ kət /

noun

1. a state in the northeastern United States. 5,009 sq. mi. (12,975 sq. km). Hartford. CT (for use with zip code), Conn., Ct.

2. a river flowing south from northern New Hampshire along the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont and then through Massachusetts and Connecticut into Long Island Sound. 407 miles (655 km) long.

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Connecticut British  

/ kəˈnɛtɪkət /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Conn..   CT.  a state of the northeastern US, in New England. Capital: Hartford. Pop: 3 483 372 (2003 est). Area: 12 973 sq km (5009 sq miles)

2. a river in the northeastern US, rising in N New Hampshire and flowing south to Long Island Sound. Length: 651 km (407 miles)

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Connecticut Cultural  

1. State in the northeastern United States; southernmost of the New England states, bordered by Massachusetts to the north, Rhode Island to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and New York to the west. Its capital is Hartford, and its largest city is Bridgeport.

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One of the thirteen colonies.

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USC lost by 17 to No. 2 South Carolina and 28 to No. 1 Connecticut earlier this season.

From Los Angeles Times

Watching herself on endless Zoom meetings is what drove Jodee Caruso, 40, the head of production at a video production studio in Connecticut, to get an upper bleph at 37 with Levin.

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AB 268 makes California the third state to recognize the holiday, following Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

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Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, condemned the reported strike Tuesday in a post on X.

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The 19th century gave us Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” about an American who finds himself in feudal England.

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