Houston
Americannoun
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Sam(uel), 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
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a city in SE Texas: a port on a ship canal, about 50 miles (80 km) from the Gulf of Mexico.
noun
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A center of the oil industry and the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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The Houston oil-services company posted a profit of $534 million, or 64 cents a share, compared with $472 million, or 55 cents a share, in the same quarter a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Tesla now offers limited unsupervised rideshare services in at least three cities — Austin, Dallas and Houston — and supervised trips in California’s San Francisco Bay Area.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Other countries are far less likely to have the covered venues of Atlanta, Dallas Houston and Vancouver to mitigate it.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He said her Houston treatment center is a premier facility, and “for California to opine that it’s not good enough for us” is a strange concept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
She and the kids were still driving to Houston.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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