Kansas
Americannoun
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a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 82,276 sq. mi. (213,094 sq. km). Topeka. KS (for use with zip code), Kans., Kan., Kas.
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a river in northeastern Kansas, flowing east to the Missouri River. 169 miles (270 km) long.
noun
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In the 1850s, the state came to be known as “bleeding Kansas” because of the violence between hostile free-staters and pro-slavery settlers.
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No baseball team that plays in the bottom half of MLB’s media markets has won a championship since the Kansas City Royals in 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
In a brief moment of clarity in 2014, they won the West, but were swept out of the division series by the Kansas City Royals as Pujols and Trout combined to go three for 24.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
This morning, Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid said that with inflation running above the Fed’s 2% definition of price stability for over five years, “Now is not the time to let down our guard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
That wasn’t the worst result; the percentage was higher in five host cities, led by Kansas City, where nearly 90% of survey respondents reported booking paces below expectations.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Though they’d left their home state of Kansas back in the 1940s, his grandparents seemed to me like the misplaced midwesterners Barack had always described them as.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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