Pennsylvania
a state in the eastern United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviations: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
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How to use Pennsylvania in a sentence
The number of women in South Carolina who died during childbirth was more than twice the rate in Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania, about 19,000 Republicans changed their party registration since the beginning of the year.
It’s still too soon to suggest that Jan. 6 prompted any massive GOP exodus | Philip Bump | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostMy mother lives in Pennsylvania and has struggled to get a vaccine appointment as the state’s process has been hobbled by mistakes and bizarre complexity.
Overlapping crises expose the erosion of our national unity | Philip Bump | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostLara Putnam, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh, said that in Pennsylvania, gerrymandering has resulted in the election of very right-wing state legislators.
The Trumpiest Republicans Are At The State And Local Levels — Not In D.C. | Perry Bacon Jr. (perry.bacon@fivethirtyeight.com) | February 16, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightIn states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, some of the most conservative lawmakers have regularly flouted mask rules that have been in place for months.
Iowa’s House speaker said he can’t make lawmakers wear masks — but he did enforce a ban on jeans | Teo Armus | February 4, 2021 | Washington Post
We are not told that Cooper had been able to vote without hindrance when she lived in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’ | Gary May | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTNo alarms were triggered as she strolled out of the Giant supermarket in Limerick, Pennsylvania, and nobody thought otherwise.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTConestoga Wood Specialties Corporation A Pennsylvania-based wood cabinet and specialty products manufacturer.
The University of Pennsylvania claims to be “America's First University.”
Pennsylvania, where the assault is alleged to have taken place, has a 12-year statute of limitations on sexual assault.
No Wonder Cosby's Keeping Quiet: He Could Still Be Prosecuted | Jay Michaelson | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWilliam Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellDuring the revolutionary war he was commissary-general to the Pennsylvania division, and printer to congress.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHe was judge of the admiralty court of Pennsylvania; his writings abound with wit, humor and satire.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIn Pennsylvania a different rule was long ago declared, and has ever since been maintained.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesRichard Penn, one of the proprietors, and governor of Pennsylvania before the revolution, died in England.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell
British Dictionary definitions for Pennsylvania
/ (ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪnɪə) /
a state of the northeastern US: almost wholly in the Appalachians, with the Allegheny Plateau to the west and a plain in the southeast; the second most important US state for manufacturing. Capital: Harrisburg. Pop: 12 365 455 (2003 est). Area: 116 462 sq km (44 956 sq miles): Abbreviation: Pa, Penn, Penna, (with zip code) PA
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Cultural definitions for Pennsylvania
State in the northeastern United States bordered by Lake Erie and New York to the north; New Jersey to the east; Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia to the south; and Ohio to the west. Its capital is Harrisburg, and its largest city is Philadelphia.
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