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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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

“No parent would want the world to watch their child die,” Meadows told Alaska News Source.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

"I have always wanted to live somewhere remote: my dream was to go to Alaska."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

I had run two Iditarod sled-dog races across Alaska, and I thought—really, it seemed to be that simple—that if a person could do one, he could do the other.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen