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- noun US A person from the
Midwest
Etymologies
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Examples
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Iowa big man L.A. Pomlee missed a lot of time this season due to an injury, but the Midwesterner was a solid player last year.
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I was born and raised in Des Moines, and I've always been proud to be a Midwesterner.
Cloris Leachman: Don't Cover-Up Animal Cruelty Cloris Leachman 2011
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New Orleans clearly made important contributions to the art, especially in its early adoption of Caribbean elements, but the claim fails to recognize the contributions of late 19th- and early 20th-century musicians like the Midwesterner Wilbur Sweatman and the Kentuckian Ben Harney, or the influence of Eastern European klezmer musicians like the Romanian Abe Schwartz, who arrived in America in 1899.
Anthology by Committee Stuart Isacoff 2011
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Displaced Midwesterner: No. In international law and foreign policy, Arizona is strictly a subdivision of the United States.
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Kroenke is a 63-year-old Midwesterner who made his billions in real-estate development and who is married to Wal-Mart heir Ann Walton, whose father was the brother of company founder Sam Walton.
A Sports Magnate's New Toy Jonathan Clegg 2011
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I was born and raised in Des Moines, and I've always been proud to be a Midwesterner.
Cloris Leachman: Don't Cover-Up Animal Cruelty Cloris Leachman 2011
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I was born and raised in Des Moines, and I've always been proud to be a Midwesterner.
Cloris Leachman: Don't Cover-Up Animal Cruelty Cloris Leachman 2011
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I was born and raised in Des Moines, and I've always been proud to be a Midwesterner.
Cloris Leachman: Don't Cover-Up Animal Cruelty Cloris Leachman 2011
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I was born and raised in Des Moines, and I've always been proud to be a Midwesterner.
Cloris Leachman: Don't Cover-Up Animal Cruelty Cloris Leachman 2011
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Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition.
Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad Michael Bialas 2011
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