Alaska
Americannoun
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a state of the United States in northwestern North America. 586,400 sq. mi. (1,519,000 sq. km). Juneau. AK (for use with zip code), Alas.
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Gulf of Alaska, a gulf of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of southern Alaska.
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Abbreviation: Alas. AK. the largest state of the US, in the extreme northwest of North America: the aboriginal inhabitants are Inuit and Yupik; the earliest White settlements were made by the Russians; it was purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. It is mostly mountainous and volcanic, rising over 6000 m (20 000 ft), with the Yukon basin in the central region; large areas are covered by tundra; it has important mineral resources (chiefly coal, oil, and natural gas). Capital: Juneau. Pop: 648 818 (2003 est). Area: 1 530 694 sq km (591 004 sq miles)
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the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
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The forty-ninth state, admitted in 1959, and the largest.
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- Alaskan adjective
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Tijuana dentist Dr. Oscar Ceballos told me that roughly 80% of his patients are from north of the border, and come from as far away as Florida, Wisconsin and Alaska.
From Los Angeles Times
And the carrier held its expectations for the end of last year while others including Alaska Air Group and Southwest cut theirs following the government shutdown.
But a meeting with Putin in Alaska in August and several rounds of talks with Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams have failed to yield any meaningful progress.
From BBC
The company has been ramping up production and getting its business back on track, after the blowout of an Alaska Air door plug in 2024 exposed Boeing to tighter regulatory scrutiny.
Only Hawaii and Alaska, whose isolation requires expensive shipping, cost more.
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