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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

“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

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

It came in mid-February, blown over the border from a conflagration on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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