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Yadkin

American  
[yad-kin] / ˈyæd kɪn /

noun

  1. a part of the Pee Dee River that flows SE through central North Carolina.


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The case comes from when FNB bought Yadkin Bank, a regional bank in the Carolinas, in 2017.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

While FNB says the bad behavior happened at Yadkin before the acquisition, the DOJ said that any bank that buys another bank should be held accountable for the acquired bank’s actions.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

To get a sense of how Alcoa might fight an effort to seize the dam, Suriname’s government is watching a dispute over Alcoa’s former Yadkin hydroelectric dam in Baden, N.C., 2,600 miles to the north.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2017

It shows the locals of that era bustling on now-sleepy downtown thoroughfares here and in Wilkesboro, the smaller sister city across the Yadkin River, as shopkeepers offered pies and pastries, men’s suits and prescription drugs.

From New York Times • May 25, 2016

The Catawba had been safely crossed, but Cornwallis might overtake the Americans before they could cross the Yadkin.

From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Gordy, Wilbur Fisk

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