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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast north-northeast of Orlando. Its hard, white beach, now lined with hotels, was once the site of automobile speed trials and races. Races are now held at Daytona's inland speedway.

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  • noun a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials

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Examples

  • Independent voters, other voters from Tampa, across to Orlando, out to Daytona Beach, that is a critical spot in the state of Florida.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008 2008

  • Independent voters, other voters from Tampa, across to Orlando, out to Daytona Beach, that is a critical spot in the state of Florida.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008 2008

  • People we talked to here -- and we actually started well below Daytona Beach, which is about an hour and a half from us, drove all the way up the beach highway, stopping in communities, talking to folks.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008 2008

  • Police had been seeking an individual who had called Daytona Beach police, saying that they had found the body of Laquetta -- Iwana Patton from Holly Hill (ph), which is a little suburb north of Daytona Beach.

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006 2006

  • However, all three women did pretty much frequent the same area in Daytona Beach, which is Ridgewood Avenue, one of the more -- the major avenues in Daytona Beach.

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2006 2006

  • We want to give you a live look now at Daytona Beach, which is north of Orlando.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004 2004

  • We have been driving between today Orlando and Daytona Beach, which is about an hour to the east of Orlando and there is extensive damage.

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2004 2004

  • And everywhere we drive from here to Daytona Beach, which is 60 miles to the east of here, we see trees down, we see power lines down, and lots of roofs.

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2004 2004

  • Ken and Lynn Novick, the lovely producer who first interviewed me for the series, invited me to come down to Orlando to talk to some of those nice PBS folks, and one day Lynn and I took a little side trip over to Daytona Beach, which is where my niece Sally Griffin still lives.

    I Was Right on Time Buck O’ Neil 1996

  • Ken and Lynn Novick, the lovely producer who first interviewed me for the series, invited me to come down to Orlando to talk to some of those nice PBS folks, and one day Lynn and I took a little side trip over to Daytona Beach, which is where my niece Sally Griffin still lives.

    I Was Right on Time Buck O’ Neil 1996

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