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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital of Pennsylvania, in the southeast-central part of the state west-northwest of Philadelphia. Settled in the early 1700s as Harris' Ferry, it was renamed in 1785 and became the capital in 1812.
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- proper noun The
capital of thecommonwealth ofPennsylvania - proper noun Several other places in the
United States andCanada
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- noun capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state
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Examples
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Political corruption and featherbedding in Harrisburg is your classic dog-bites-man story, and frankly it’s too bad more of the General Assembly hasn’t been sent to jail for “business asusual.”
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Mrs. Sorett spent much of her early life in Harrisburg, Pa., where she became president of the League of Women Voters chapter.
Felice H. Sorett Post 2010
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You have to love his ads everywhere “Restoring Trust in Harrisburg” more like — Restoring Anti-trust in Harrisburg.
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That de Rugy has testified before Congress on the basis of her evidence, and never paused to consider why the top five congressional districts on her list overlap with Sacramento, Albany, Austin, Tallahassee and Harrisburg, is mind-boggling.
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Few in Harrisburg were opposed to a tax per se, even though drillers do currently make lease and royalties payments.
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Eagle Consulting Group is a national Republican political consulting and public affairs firm based in Harrisburg, Pa.
Elections 2010: Will the Republicans take over House, Senate? Christopher Nicholas 2010
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I know of many state workers in Harrisburg who continued working their daily jobs without pay and had to go to food banks to put food on the table for their families – all the while siphoning any savings they had in order to prevent foreclosure on their homes.
Things you can’t do in PA on Thursday night – Brian Keene 2009
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I am a GOP political consultant based in Harrisburg, pa and have been in the business since 1984!
Elections 2010: Will the Republicans take over House, Senate? Christopher Nicholas 2010
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The expectation here in Harrisburg was that he would have been in the cabinet but for the Knoll situation.
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I remember seeing Obama at a rally in Harrisburg and the heavy security, including sharpshooters on all the rooftops.
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