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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 480 km (300 mi) long, of northwest Oregon flowing generally northward to the Columbia River near Portland. The Willamette Valley, a fertile agricultural region, was settled in the 1830s by pioneers traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland
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Examples
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Portland's wastewater treatment system was releasing up to 6 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the Willamette River each year.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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Portland's wastewater treatment system was releasing up to 6 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the Willamette River each year.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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In Portland, Oregon, marchers staged a protest on the Steel Bridge, a major route across the Willamette River, which police had closed to traffic.
Occupy day of action brings clashes and arrests in New York 2011
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From Milwaukie, a down-and-out town of 20,000 along the Willamette River a few miles south of Portland, Ore., the company creates and publishes comic books and graphic novels.
The Man Behind 'The Mask' Nancy Keates 2011
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Its polluted, greenish water wound through Milwaukie and the southeast end of Portland, zigzagging back and forth between Multnomah and Clackamas counties until it emptied, finally, into the Willamette River.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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Marchers staged a protest on the Steel Bridge, a major crossing over the Willamette River, which had been closed to traffic by police.
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It looks like many of them are drowning in the flooding Willamette River but then further investigation shows the most recent bodies were murdered and then placed in the river.
Jackie K. Cooper: Chelsea Cain Is Flying Under the Radar Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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Its polluted, greenish water wound through Milwaukie and the southeast end of Portland, zigzagging back and forth between Multnomah and Clackamas counties until it emptied, finally, into the Willamette River.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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It looks like many of them are drowning in the flooding Willamette River but then further investigation shows the most recent bodies were murdered and then placed in the river.
Jackie K. Cooper: Chelsea Cain Is Flying Under the Radar Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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From Milwaukie, a down-and-out town of 20,000 along the Willamette River a few miles south of Portland, Ore., the company creates and publishes comic books and graphic novels.
The Man Behind 'The Mask' Nancy Keates 2011
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