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Washington

[wosh-ing-tuhn, waw-shing-] / ˈwɒʃ ɪŋ tən, ˈwɔ ʃɪŋ- /


NOUN
Uncle Sam
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“It was like rolling out the red carpet to a Chinese invasion,” said Daniel Markey, senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal

The U.S. ambassador to Turkey earlier this month tweeted that recent conversations about Washington’s potentially selling F-35 fighter jets to Ankara have been “fruitful.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The name change has been met with harsh criticism, particularly in Washington DC where the centre has been an iconic landmark since it was built and named for Kennedy.

From BBC

The Chinese Embassy in Washington didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal

Washington has been wildly inconsistent, so bad losses in two of the past three weeks have created more questions than answers.

From Los Angeles Times