Tar Heel State
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Instead, you’re heading off to the Tar Heel State to spend your days hunting... coyotes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
North Carolina was second only to much, much larger California in the number of manufacturing jobs lost: According to one estimate, the Tar Heel State lost nearly half its jobs in that sector.
From Slate • Oct. 10, 2024
But Tar Heel State veterans interviewed in the runup to the primary season’s biggest voting day varied in their politics, even if they agreed that their military service informed their opinions.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024
Cunningham lost by nearly two percentage points, falling considerably short of the vote tallies of Democrats Joe Biden in the presidential race and Roy Cooper in the gubernatorial race in the Tar Heel State.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 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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