Massachusetts
a state in the northeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8,257 square miles (21,385 square kilometers). Capital: Boston. Abbreviations: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
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How to use Massachusetts in a sentence
Bresnahan, who became lottery director in 2018, will go home to Massachusetts to tend to family issues that can no longer be handled from a distance, said David Umansky, a spokesman for the city’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
D.C. Lottery executive director resigning as of Friday | Michael Brice-Saddler | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostMassachusetts’ billing system also automatically rejects assignments made to ineligible attorneys, and rejected assignments are reviewed by the director of the criminal trial support unit to verify if the case needs to be reassigned.
Lawyers Who Were Ineligible to Handle Serious Criminal Charges Were Given Thousands of These Cases Anyway | by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica | February 23, 2021 | ProPublicaThen I was also in Newton, Massachusetts, before I went back to India.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas Believes in Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk | Pallabi Munsi | February 12, 2021 | OzyThe company previously announced a suspension in Massachusetts after state lawmakers introduced legislation that sought to take aim at the new fees.
Comcast suspends Internet data limits, fees for Northeast customers | Tony Romm | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostI’m certainly nervous, given that teacher vaccinations in Massachusetts are still many weeks away.
Teacher: What Americans keep getting wrong about our unions during the pandemic | Valerie Strauss | February 2, 2021 | Washington Post
Wahlberg filed his petition for a pardon to the governor of Massachusetts on November 26.
LAPD Foundation: Mark Wahlberg Would Make a Good Reserve Cop | Asawin Suebsaeng | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen I worked my way through college at a mental hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
James Patterson Goes Full ‘Fahrenheit 451’ With Burning Book Video | William O’Connor | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe city, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is located about 30 miles north of Boston and is home to 76,000 people.
Democrats, as Romney should have remembered from his campaigns in Massachusetts, have no such compunctions.
Historically, the Puritans banned Christmas from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.
Kirk Cameron Saves Christmas from Abominable Killjoys (Other Christians) | Brandy Zadrozny | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was afterwards a member of the Massachusetts senate, and much esteemed as a physician and a patriot.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellGovernor Endicott, and other influential men in Massachusetts, formed an association against wearing long hair!
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellBoundary line between New York and Massachusetts agreed upon.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell"We yield obedience to the act granting duties," declared the Massachusetts Assembly.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl BeckerAfter this "shot heard 'round the world," the Americans were most sympathetic toward their fellow-colonists of Massachusetts.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey
British Dictionary definitions for Massachusetts
/ (ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts) /
a state of the northeastern US, on the Atlantic: a centre of resistance to English colonial policy during the War of American Independence; consists of a coastal plain rising to mountains in the west. Capital: Boston. Pop: 6 433 422 (2003 est). Area: 20 269 sq km (7826 sq miles): Abbreviation: Mass, (with zip code) MA
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Cultural definitions for Massachusetts
State in the northeastern United States; one of the New England states. Bordered by Vermont and New Hampshire to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, and New York to the west. Its capital and largest city is Boston.
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