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Middle Atlantic States

American  

plural noun

  1. New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.


Middle Atlantic States British  

plural noun

  1. the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mr. Kaufman shares Mr. Wing’s enthusiasm for the rare encounter, while noting the growing number of anhingas seen in the Middle Atlantic States.

From New York Times May 4, 2023

As long as the whole nation, or a region of the country like the Middle Atlantic States, doesn’t revert to permanent Standard Time, Pennsylvania shouldn’t opt for the change by itself.

From Washington Times Mar. 20, 2019

In the East, Middle Atlantic States, in the Southeast as far as South Carolina, and over to Alabama, the long, severe drought moved into its seventh week.

From Time Magazine Archive

A sub-committee of the Northeastern Super-power Committee, headed by Secretary Hoover, has completed a report upon possibilties of this sort for the New England and Middle Atlantic States.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had the most refined voice in the Middle Atlantic States.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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