Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The section of Michigan between Lakes Michigan and Huron and south of the Straits of Mackinac.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
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Examples
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Dennis Fijalkowski, executive director of the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy, said he thinks the existence of cougars in the Lower Peninsula is a definite possibility.
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Bojrab said the Hatches were flying to their summer home on Walloon Lake in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula, where Stephen Hatch and his brothers all owned property, when his single-engine plane flew into a garage near the Charlevoix Municipal Airport.
Austin Hatch, Indiana Basketball Standout, Survives Second Plane Crash 2011
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The seven counties surrounding Grand Rapids in western Michigan grew by 6.2%, and the northwest part of the state's Lower Peninsula around Traverse City grew 5.8%.
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The seven counties surrounding Grand Rapids in western Michigan grew by 6.2%, and the northwest part of the state's Lower Peninsula around Traverse City grew 5.8%.
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Six people were injured Saturday when a van carrying 13 people hit a guardrail and overturned in Mecosta County, near Stanwood, Mich., in the north-central Lower Peninsula.
PHOTOS: Winter Storms Batter Midwest AP/The Huffington Post 2010
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"If it wasn't for this plant, we wouldn't even be here," said Kirk Jones, the 57-year-old founder of Sleeping Bear Farms in the northwest Lower Peninsula community of Beulah.
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"If it wasn't for this plant, we wouldn't even be here," said Kirk Jones, the 57-year-old founder of Sleeping Bear Farms in the northwest Lower Peninsula community of Beulah.
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Six people were injured Saturday when a van carrying 13 people hit a guardrail and overturned in Mecosta County, near Stanwood, Mich., in the north-central Lower Peninsula.
PHOTOS: Winter Storms Batter Midwest AP/The Huffington Post 2010
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Ms. TAWNI FERRARINI (Director, Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, Northern Michigan University): We have been somewhat protected from the woes of the Lower Peninsula because we're a more diversified economy.
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And that's one of the issues in Michigan is that the Lower Peninsula gets all the excitement - and it's bad excitement right now because of the auto industry - and all the pain and suffering that's going on there with the global economy.
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