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State College

American  

noun

  1. a city in central Pennsylvania.


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“Both the District Attorney’s Office and the State College Police Department have reviewed video evidence of this incident and do not believe that a charge of Aggravated Assault is supported by the evidence.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

In peacetime, it is a small town the size of Sarasota, Fla., or State College, Pa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Other co-authors include Jiangang Liao, professor of public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, and Camille Moeckel, a fourth-year medical student and research associate at Penn State College of Medicine.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

“The survey results don't surprise me at all,” Lauren Schneider, a 31-year-old working in public relations in State College, Pennsylvania, told Salon.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2025

It had recently been accredited to offer four- year degrees and had come to be called West Virginia State College.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson