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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital of Michigan, in the south-central part of the state northwest of Detroit. It is an automobile-manufacturing center and became the state capital in 1847.
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- proper noun Any number of towns in the USA, see Wikipedia:Lansing
- proper noun The capital of
Michigan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River
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Examples
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MARK ALLEY, LANSING POLICE CHIEF: I'm pleased to announce that we have arrested a serial killer in connection with the recent homicides that occurred against women in the city of Lansing.
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LANSING -- The explosive debate over who should control Detroit Public Schools came today to Lansing where DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb squared off against his critics.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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LANSING - A winter storm could bring about seven inches of snow to the Lansing area by Monday night.
lsj.com - News 2010
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LANSING - A 21-year-old Grand Rapids man has been arrested and charged after driving while intoxicated and seriously injuring two of his passengers in a Saturday crash in Lansing, police said today.
lsj.com - News 2010
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11: 12 a.m. LANSING -- A group of Traverse City area residents are in Lansing, protesting a plan to build a coal burning power plant in Presque Isle County.
TV 7&4 - Local News 2009
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Born in Lansing, Michigan, he is the son of a nurse and a teacher.
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PLUTA: At the Tea Party rally in Lansing, Cheryl Schultz says she didnt vote for Snyder in the primary, precisely because she saw him as too moderate.
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Colleges would lose the right to prohibit concealed weapons on campus under a proposed bill that was blasted by university officials at a House committee hearing in Lansing on Tuesday.
Security/Crime 2009
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Reader Jeff Semenak, who lives in Lansing, reports that the Lansing State Journal courthouse notes occasionally mention that someone has been convicted of “seducing an unmarried woman.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman” 2010
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The Mayor of Lansing is absolutely correct in all his rantings.
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