Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Uncle Sam
- abbreviation Uniform System (of lens aperture)
- abbreviation United States
- abbreviation United States highway
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- noun The
ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code forUnited States of America . - proper noun Abbreviation of
United States . - adjective
American ; related to the United States.
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Examples
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Let us say that an oppressive government came to power in the US.
Gloria Duffy: Logic, Guns and Mental Illness Gloria Duffy 2011
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Absurd as it sounds, let us say for the purpose of argument that the Mexican government were to try to take over the United States, and for some reason, the US government and its large standing military with nuclear weapons was unable to fight this off.
Gloria Duffy: Logic, Guns and Mental Illness Gloria Duffy 2011
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It's these omissions that tell us far more about the progress or lack thereof in how the US government thinks about a complex subject like Internet freedom.
Evgeny Morozov: America's Internet Freedom Agenda Evgeny Morozov 2011
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Let us say that an oppressive government came to power in the US.
Gloria Duffy: Logic, Guns and Mental Illness Gloria Duffy 2011
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Hoover Candy Group, which owns the Hoover brand in Europe, has asked us to point out that it has no connection with Hoover US, owned by Maytag, and that any sale of the US company will have no effect on European operations Hoover put up for sale after revenues hit floor, page 25, February 4.
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"Twitter trends also help us gauge how visible we are to the international community my trends feed is set to Worldwide, and I know a lot of people have it set to various places in the US," @alya1989262 wrote.
Egyptian Tweeter, First To Use '#Jan25,' Says Twitter Was 'Invaluable' During Protests The Huffington Post 2011
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"Twitter trends also help us gauge how visible we are to the international community my trends feed is set to Worldwide, and I know a lot of people have it set to various places in the US," @alya1989262 wrote.
Egyptian Tweeter, First To Use '#Jan25,' Says Twitter Was 'Invaluable' During Protests The Huffington Post 2011
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"Twitter trends also help us gauge how visible we are to the international community my trends feed is set to Worldwide, and I know a lot of people have it set to various places in the US," @alya1989262 wrote.
Egyptian Tweeter, First To Use '#Jan25,' Says Twitter Was 'Invaluable' During Protests The Huffington Post 2011
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It's these omissions that tell us far more about the progress or lack thereof in how the US government thinks about a complex subject like Internet freedom.
Evgeny Morozov: America's Internet Freedom Agenda Evgeny Morozov 2011
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Absurd as it sounds, let us say for the purpose of argument that the Mexican government were to try to take over the United States, and for some reason, the US government and its large standing military with nuclear weapons was unable to fight this off.
Gloria Duffy: Logic, Guns and Mental Illness Gloria Duffy 2011
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