Jerseyite
Americannoun
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Jerseyites
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adjective
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When Hamawy and his full team did make it home, he went to Washington to thank Duckworth and several other senators who helped them get out, including fellow Jerseyite Cory Booker.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
A blue-collar New Jerseyite seeks fame with a surrogate family at Manhattan’s Studio 54.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
“You guys know that I was a 400-pound Filipino woman before this?” shouted Johnny LoPresto, the event’s MC, a thick-necked New Jerseyite with slick silver hair.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2019
Purchasing Bamberger's was a logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another person who gravitated to S&P was Alan Kotok, a plump, chinless, thick-spectacled New Jerseyite in Samson's class.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Steven Levy
New Jerseyites can look forward to more power outages and longer delays to get their lights back on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
The arena where fellow Jerseyites Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra, as well as the NBA and NHL, once played closed in 2015 after nearly 40 years.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2021
The essentials: Jami Brandli’s splendidly imaginative play transforms tragic Greek heroines into 1960-era New Jerseyites with man problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2018
Don't worry, Jerseyites, he still has plenty of spare time left over to be governor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
The New Jerseyites had made for themselves better quarters than I had ever occupied, and we “entered into their labors.”
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller
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