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New Jersey

American  

noun

  1. a state in the eastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 7,836 square miles (20,295 square kilometers). Trenton. NJ (for use with zip code), N.J.

New Jersey British  

noun

  1. Abbreviation: N.J..   NJ.  a state of the eastern US, on the Atlantic and Delaware Bay: mostly low-lying, with a heavy industrial area in the northeast and many coastal resorts. Capital: Trenton. Pop: 8 638 396 (2003 est). Area: 19 479 sq km (7521 sq miles)

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New Jersey Cultural  

  1. State in the northeastern United States, bordered by New York to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Delaware Bay to the south and west, and Pennsylvania to the west. Its capital is Trenton, and its largest city is Newark.

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One of the thirteen colonies.

Other Word Forms

  • New Jerseyan noun
  • New Jerseyite noun

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Both risks have been most acute within PJM, which operates a power market spanning 13 states from New Jersey to Kentucky.

From The Wall Street Journal

Back in New Jersey, Venkatesh Chinni, a postdoctoral scholar and lead author of the study, measured iron concentrations in the samples, analyzing both dissolved iron and iron attached to suspended particles.

From Science Daily

On that snowy night in New Jersey, Sean Gray surveyed the dinner crowd from behind the kitchen door.

From The Wall Street Journal

The PJM Interconnection grid, which spans 13 states from Illinois to New Jersey, has become ground zero in the fight over how to pay for AI growth.

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By 1804, New Jersey had been the last Northern state to pass abolition laws.

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