Alaska

[uh-las-kuh] / əˈlæs kə /

NOUN

u.s. state

Synonyms

WEAK

America's Icebox Seward's Folly the 49th state the Klondike the Last Frontier the frozen North

Example Sentences

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Alaska Airlines announced a deal to buy Hawaiian Airlines in December 2023, and the merger was approved in the fall of 2024.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

They need four seats to win back the chamber, and party leaders have highlighted North Carolina, Maine, Ohio and Alaska as the most plausible path.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

Marie Byrd Land covers some 620,000 square miles of Antarctica—an area roughly the size of Alaska.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

So far, just two—Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rep. Nathaniel Moran of Texas—have directly criticized Trump over his threat.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2026

Then she was in Gaea’s cave in Alaska, where Hazel and her mother had died as the ceiling collapsed and the voice of the Earth Goddess wailed in anger.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan