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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of east-central Iowa on the Cedar River east-northeast of Des Moines. It developed as a trade center in an agricultural region.
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- noun a city in eastern Iowa
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'Cedar Rapids' The main thing about "Cedar Rapids" is that it makes you laugh — often and out loud.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011
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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Campbell, 20 percent of Cedar Rapids, which is the second largest city in the state of Iowa, is under water.
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And I can't speak for every citizen in the city of Cedar Rapids, which is a city of 120,000 people, but anecdotally, yes, many of the people that we talked to said because they were told they live in a 500-year floodplain, meaning something like this only happens every 500 years, that they did not need flood insurance, and so they didn't buy it.
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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Campbell, 20 percent of Cedar Rapids, which is the second largest city in the state of Iowa, is under water.
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Comedy "Cedar Rapids," which tells of naive, small-town insurance man Tim Lippe Ed Helms on a trip to a convention in the big city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, enjoyed a solid premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival and is getting good reviews.
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Comedy "Cedar Rapids," which tells of naive, small-town insurance man Tim Lippe Ed Helms on a trip to a convention in the big city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, enjoyed a solid premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival and is getting good reviews.
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Highest college attainment: 57.9% of adults 3. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Boomtowns And Busts 2011
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Ms. Clarke, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was a single mom in her 20s who held down odd jobs while indulging her "fun hobby" of putting together fashion shows at the local mall.
A Different Kind of Girl Scout Rachel Dodes 2011
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa AP -- A 22-year-old Cedar Rapids man has gotten three years in prison for recruiting fake students to sign up for classes at Kirkwood Community College in a student loan scheme.
Iowa Man Gets 3 Years In Student Loan Scheme Yahoo! Finance 2011
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Yirkovsky, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, man with an extensive criminal record, was back in school pursuing a high-school diploma and working as a drywall installer.
As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines Gary Fields 2011
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