New England
Americannoun
noun
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the NE part of the US, consisting of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut: settled originally chiefly by Puritans in the mid-17th century
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a region in SE Australia, in the northern tablelands of New South Wales
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The region is thought to have been named by Captain John Smith for its resemblance to the English coast.
Other Word Forms
- New Englander noun
- New Englandish adjective
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And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.
In October, Neuralink submitted a scientific paper to the New England Journal of Medicine that described the first three patients implanted with one of its devices.
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That storm wasn’t a nor’easter—it affected a much larger region of the country, from New Mexico and Texas all the way up through New England.
We recently announced in the New England Journal of Medicine that we are changing the requirement for drug studies from two clinical trials to one well-controlled, well-designed trial.
Appealing to voters in small, rural New England precincts was a remarkable achievement for a candidate identified with Chicago and civil rights campaigns in the South.
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