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Tombigbee

American  
[tom-big-bee] / tɒmˈbɪg bi /

noun

  1. a river flowing S through NE Mississippi and SW Alabama to the Mobile River. 525 miles (845 km) long.


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After arriving in March in Demopolis, Ala., on the Tombigbee River, he remained there for a month because of tornadoes and flooding.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

A flood warning also is in effect for the Tombigbee River at Amory in Mississippi.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2019

Perdue, the former governor of Georgia before joining Trump’s cabinet as agriculture secretary, lauded the work that Tombigbee is doing.

From Washington Times • May 13, 2018

Things are different today, of course, and for many of us, the Tombigbee River is something we see from a bridge as we hurry by on our daily travels.

From Washington Times • Jan. 6, 2016

The so-called Confederacy, a loose sort of alliance, claimed for a hunting ground the lands extending westward to the watershed between the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, which unite to form the Mobile.

From Andrew Jackson by Brown, William Garrott

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