New Haven

American  

noun

1. a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.

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New Haven British  

noun

1. an industrial city and port in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound: settled in 1638 by English Puritans, who established it as a colony in 1643; seat of Yale University (1701). Pop: 124 512 (2003 est)

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New Haven Cultural  

1. City in southern Connecticut.

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Location of Yale University.

Example Sentences

Activist groups staged protests for months near places where it provides service, including Tweed New Haven Airport in Connecticut.

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The plaintiffs were white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who passed a test used for promotion decisions.

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The carriers are using the performance claims and account-access moves to show their personalities in the escalating marketing fight, said George Heudorfer, practitioner in residence at the University of New Haven’s Pompea College of Business.

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Dr. Ania Jastreboff, director of the Yale Obesity Research Center in New Haven, Conn., is advising patients who want to delay their shots to adjust their injection schedule accordingly afterward.

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“It’s much easier to fix one person,” said Declan Hill, an expert on match-fixing at the University of New Haven, “than it is to fix a team.”

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