Jonesboro
Americannoun
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a city in NE Arkansas.
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a town in NE Tennessee: oldest town in Tennessee.
Example Sentences
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How small was her hometown of Jonesboro in those days?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
And so central Louisiana boomed with new ICE facilities: in Jonesboro, in Monroe, in Ferriday, in Basile, and in Winnfield.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2025
Dr. Rajendram Rajnarayanan, of the New York Institute of Technology campus in Jonesboro, Arkansas, told Salon he isn’t “totally happy with the guidelines.”
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2024
ATF agents were on hand at a pawn shop in Jonesboro, Georgia, on June 15, 2022, when Cannon bought nine weapons for Samuels.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
He studied law in Kentucky and Illinois, and was admitted to practice in 1820 at Jonesboro, Illinois.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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