Iowa
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Iowas,
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Iowa
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a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Des Moines. IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
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a river flowing southeast from northern Iowa to the Mississippi River. 291 miles (470 km) long.
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a member of an American Indian people originally of Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota but now of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.
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the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa Indians.
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It is also working with NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear reactor in Iowa, and has paired with reactor developer Kairos Power to purchase electricity from its projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Wells Fargo upgraded Cleveland-Cliffs, saying near-term earnings could beat expectations even as a planned Iowa steel mill raises concerns about future supply.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The BBC's US partner CBS News has identified nine Senate races to watch, external, in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and 42 House races, in states like Arizona and Ohio.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Walker was from Iowa and attended Iowa State University to study philosophy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Iowa experiment is just that, of course, a simple card game involving a handful of subjects and a stress detector.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Other vital statistics in Forrestal's report revealed that the 45,000-ton Iowas carry 148 antiaircraft barrels, ranging from 20 mm. up to five-inch dual purpose guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rembert spent most of this semester preparing the remainder for a fourth try on the Iowas.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have a reservation of about 16,000 acres, lying in the south-eastern part of Nebraska and the north-eastern part of Kansas, purchased for them from the Iowas.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker
He picked out his grave—at a place about half a mile from his cabin, where, he said, he had led his Sacs in a great battle with the Iowas.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
But no tribes attracted as intense a degree of interest as the Iowas, and the Sacs and Foxes--tribes of radically diverse languages, yet united in a league against the Sioux.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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