Americus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Outrage comes and goes, and so do boycotts,” University of Pennsylvania marketing professor Americus Reed wrote in the New York Times in 2017.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2025
While a sophomore at Georgia Southwestern, then a junior college in nearby Americus, she was captivated by a photograph of Jimmy Carter in his U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023
Hugh Alton Carter Jr. was born on Sept. 29, 1942, in Americus, Ga., to Ruth and Hugh A. Carter Sr. His father, a worm farmer and antiques dealer, was a Georgia state senator.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023
A police escort with flashing lights escorted Story’s casket through the streets of nearby Americus on Wednesday after it arrived in Georgia.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2023
It is Americus Vespucius who bears away from Columbus the recompense of his toils!”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
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