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State College

American  

noun

  1. a city in central Pennsylvania.


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He graduated from Alabama State College in 1960 with a bachelor’s in music and worked briefly as a schoolteacher before beginning his professional music career.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

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

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

Coach Mustilli had been a college fencing champion at Montclair State College during his junior and senior years.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

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