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North America

noun as in New World

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She was hoping to shift prevailing attitudes toward cooking with blood, a practice that some in North America may dismiss as, in a word, disgusting.

Many telegraph systems throughout Europe and North America failed, and the electrified lines shocked some telegraph operators.

Brookfield owns roughly 70,000 multifamily units in North America, “so we have a lot of doors that need a lot of locks,” Raffaelli says.

About one in five people in North America over the age of 40 will develop heart failure.

The supply to poorer countries is low mostly because the majority of the available vaccines have been purchased or promised to richer countries in North America and Europe.

The Yellowstone grizzly is one of the more carnivorous interior bear populations in North America.

She hated sharing Georgie with his admirers, particularly on lecture tours in in North America.

The Germans and Japanese have snatched their customers away in North America.

And by the spring of 2014, the number had reached 14—in North America, Europe, Australia and Thailand.

So New Yorkers took the most valuable 150 square blocks in North America and created Central Park.

Spain is at war with North America, and now offers us this sugar-plum to draw us to her side to defend her against invasion.

Congress resolved to establish the bank of North America, being the first regularly established bank in the country.

Most of the seed used is the produce of seed imported at various times from North America and Cuba.

The continent of North America was then one continued forest.

This was the first settling of North America, and thirteen years anterior to the landing of the Pilgrims.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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