Amarillo
Americannoun
noun
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Paxton filed a lawsuit in Amarillo, more than 700 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, where Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has heard nearly all cases since Trump appointed him to the bench in 2018.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
A former star student and long-distance runner from a prominent family in Amarillo, Texas, Griffin goes into her first session with a competitor’s single-minded determination to, as she writes, “get to the finish line.”
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
There’s an old gambler’s aphorism beloved by wise souls from Amarillo Slim to Warren Buffett that warns: “If you look around the poker table and can’t identify the mark, it’s you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Neugebauer’s departure comes as Fermi struggles to find a cornerstone tenant for its Project Matador campus in Amarillo, Texas.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
But before that most pleasant and sometimes exhausting human trait took hold, I had three days of namelessness in a beautiful motor hotel in the middle of Amarillo.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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