Miami
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a member of an Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe, formerly located in northern Indiana and Illinois, southern Michigan, and possibly Wisconsin, now living primarily in Oklahoma.
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their dialect of the Illinois language.
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a city in SE Florida: seaside resort.
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Also called Great Miami. a river in W Ohio, flowing S into the Ohio River. 160 miles (260 km) long.
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a city in NE Oklahoma.
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Famed for its resort hotels.
Home of the largest Cuban population outside Cuba, many of them exiles from the regime of Fidel Castro.
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Origin of Miami
First recorded in 1690–1700; from French, from Illinois miamioua, myaamiwa “person from downstream”
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In Miami an excess of caution on McLaren's part about the potential of rain allowed Mercedes to pit Antonelli before Norris and leap into the lead.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
On Thursday, federal marshals in Miami took the Tates into custody.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Marcello Hernández, Teyana Taylor and Andy Garcia star alongside the actor in this Netflix comedy about a 40-year-old who crashes a Miami bachelor party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Since then several teams made pitches for his services, with the Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers and Minnesota Timberwolves considered favorites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
When we landed in Miami, Farmer surveyed the cabin.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
It’s an ability the teams they claim to be chasing, the Kansas Cities and Buffaloes and Miamis of the world, can do seemingly at will, not just occasionally.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Early inhabitants had been Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, and numerous smaller tribes, but retreating bands of Delawares and others had joined them from the East.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
There will be dozens of Miamis and thousands of Tangiers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2016
“It used to be the San Franciscos, the Miamis, New York,” said John Tanzella, the president and chief executive of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2014
Wayne’s units entered what is now northwestern Ohio and established a base they called Fort Defiance in the heart of an Indigenous alliance that included Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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