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State College

American  

noun

  1. a city in central Pennsylvania.


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If not for a late game winner in State College from Arenas, they would’ve dropped all three games played without Baker-Mazara.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

“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

After high school, Gray worked his way rapidly through Alabama State College and then went off to law school in Ohio.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

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