Missouri
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Missouris,
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Missouri
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a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Jefferson City. MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
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a river flowing from SW Montana into the Mississippi N of St. Louis, Mo. 2,723 miles (4,382 km) long.
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a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Siouan linguistic stock, located on the Missouri River in early historic times and now extinct as a tribe.
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Abbreviation: Mo, MO. a state of the central US: consists of rolling prairies in the north, the Ozark Mountains in the south, and part of the Mississippi flood plain in the southeast, with the Mississippi forming the E border; chief US producer of lead and barytes. Capital: Jefferson City. Pop: 5 704 484 (2003 est). Area: 178 699 sq km (68 995 sq miles)
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a river in the W and central US, rising in SW Montana: flows north, east, and southeast to join the Mississippi above St Louis; the longest river in North America; chief tributary of the Mississippi. Length: 3970 km (2466 miles)
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“This court’s September 10 stay order meant that the 2022 map would be used in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri, absent further order of this court,” the justices wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Von Glahn and his group of voters sued and won a unanimous decision from the Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The consequence, it seemed, was that Missouri law required the general election to be held using the state’s previous map, which had been adopted in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
A new discovery from the University of Missouri is revealing an overlooked reason muscles can lose strength with age.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
That might have been that if only, some days afterward, the thieves hadn’t ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Exactly what Lindell has been doing in "your Missouris" and "Alabamas" is unclear.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021
Of the western groups, by far the most numerous were the Dakotas, comprising the Sioux, Poncas, Omahas, Iowas, Kaws, Otoes, and Missouris.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
They held a big council here, decorating a few more Otoes and Missouris, and telling them to make peace with the Omahas and the Pawnee Loups.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
They soon went on their way to attack the Illinois and Missouris, leaving the Frenchmen to ascend the Wisconsin unmolested.
From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman
The Missouris came down the river in many canoes, and their enemies had concealed themselves in the willow thickets.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
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