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State College

American  

noun

  1. a city in central Pennsylvania.


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The Royals organization drafted Gore out of Gulf Coast State College in Panama City in the 2011 Major League Baseball draft, while he was still 19.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026

“He’s got his work cut out for him,” said Martin Lewison, associate professor of business management for Farmingdale State College in New York, who is also a Six Flags shareholder.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 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

On a late October Friday, he took the FBI private jet to State College, Pa., for a Real American Freestyle Wrestling event where his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, was performing the national anthem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

There were local newspapers that she had sent him and a Alumnus Bulletin from Emporia State College.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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