Utah
Americannoun
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a state in the western United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Salt Lake City. UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
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Military. the World War II Allies' code name for the easternmost of the D-Day invasion beaches on France's Normandy coast, assaulted by American troops.
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The Great Salt Lake is located in the northwestern part of the state.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons, founded the state and to a large extent still dominate it.
Other Word Forms
- Utahan adjective
- Utahn adjective
Example Sentences
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On February 7, the Utah Jazz led the Orlando Magic by seven points after three quarters.
Labor disputes aren’t uncommon in ski towns; patrollers at Utah’s Park City Mountain walked out a year earlier, but Vail Resorts kept it open.
Shortly after, a Utah judge sentenced him to two years in jail for gun-related charges.
From Los Angeles Times
Spots in Utah, North Carolina, and Tennessee similarly “had a lot of prominent growth throughout the postpandemic era,” says Anthony Smith, a senior economist at Realtor.com.
From Barron's
But the agency did discover that a network of UFO believers within the Defense Department had created a program that investigated accounts of interdimensional creatures and werewolves on a ranch in Utah.
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