noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- post-Kansan adjective
Etymology
Origin of Kansan
Example Sentences
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There was a rodeo announcer from Idaho, a Kansan whose family owns a dairy farm, and a retired government worker who auctioned spectrum for the Federal Communications Commission.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Inside Dorothy’s Kansan house, a once-shadowed frying pan on the wall now dangles front and center, as does a digitally added “Home Sweet Home” needlepoint nailed to the threshold.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
The Nebraska-born Walz also emanates the positivity of Ted Lasso, a Kansan, minus the stuffed-down crippling depression and the barrage of folksy similes.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 2024
Sud creates parallels between Clare in Hollywood and Dorothy in Oz, assigning Clare a Kansan back story, a yapping terrier and a guileless attitude.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024
The Bureau’s Garden City representative, and the agent responsible for a sizable portion of western Kansas, is a lean and handsome fourth- generation Kansan of forty-seven named Alvin Adams Dewey.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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