Carolina
Americannoun
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a former English colony on the Atlantic coast of North America: officially divided into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.
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a city in northeast Puerto Rico, southeast of San Juan.
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Also called the Carolinas. North Carolina and South Carolina.
noun
Example Sentences
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According to Deadline, production on the untitled action movie from the Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend begins this week in South Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times
Within weeks, versions of “Singular Revelations” circulated throughout the country’s newspapers, appearing in Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and North Carolina, then crossing the Atlantic to Dublin and London.
From Literature
It takes purified silicon rocks, a good source of which is sand in North Carolina, and fashions them into the 12-inch wafers that will later be imprinted with trillions of transistors to become chips.
South Carolina does not have filial-responsibility laws, and Maryland repealed its own law in 2017, meaning adult children are not responsible for their parents’ debts or care-home costs, unless they sign as a guarantor.
From MarketWatch
New York is a typical location, but Georgia, South Carolina and New Hampshire are less so.
From Barron's
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