New Mexico

American  

noun

1. a state in the southwestern United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). Santa Fe. NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.

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New Mexico British  

noun

1. Abbreviation: N. Mex..   NM.  a state of the southwestern US: high semiarid plateaus and mountains, crossed by the Rio Grande and the Pecos River; large Spanish-American and Indian populations; contains over two-thirds of US uranium reserves. Capital: Santa Fé. Pop: 1 874 614 (2003 est). Area: 314 451 sq km (121 412 sq miles)

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New Mexico Cultural  

1. State in the southwestern United States bordered by Colorado to the north, Oklahoma and Texas to the east, Texas and Mexico to the south, and Arizona to the west. Its capital is Santa Fe, and its largest city is Albuquerque.

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An important center of Native American culture and home to Navajo reservations.

Center of the Los Alamos Research Center, where the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb) was developed.

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• New Mexican
  adjective

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New Mexico

Communities and water users in both New Mexico and Texas depend on surface water and groundwater throughout the valley.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

The only two US states not included are Florida, which rejected the settlement, and New Mexico, which was not included in the offer after a previous court cases resulted in a $942m fine.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

In 2021, Raley’s acquired the Bashas’ Family of Stores, increasing its footprint in Arizona and New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The AGs in that case had asked for roughly $200 billion in damages, more than 200 times the amount that Meta was recently ordered to pay after losing a similar child-safety trial in New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Cade Hernandez and I slept in a forty-five-dollar-a-night motel room somewhere east of Gallup, New Mexico, that smelled like cigarettes and Comet cleanser.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith