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Tar Heel State

American  

noun

  1. North Carolina (used as a nickname).


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Ponysaurus’s owners had agreed to let us use their building and its fire and sanitation inspections, which are required to open a private school in the Tar Heel State.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Instead, you’re heading off to the Tar Heel State to spend your days hunting... coyotes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

Before its passage, judges in the Tar Heel State had only found racial discrimination in jury selection one time.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

Some states, including South Carolina, have been more successful recently at buying shells than North Carolina because the Tar Heel State has a limit on how much it can spend.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

Man has done more for France, it seems to me, than for the Tar Heel State, and the cities of Asheville and Paris are widely different.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

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