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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river flowing about 3,185 km (1,980 mi) from southern Yukon Territory, Canada, through Alaska to the Bering Sea. It was a major route to the Klondike during the gold rush of 1897–1898.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
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Examples
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The Yukon River, which is farther north, runs from the east toward the west.
Stories of American Life and Adventure Edward Eggleston 1869
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Latour attempted to correct him, agreeing that they do sometimes swim downstream, but the Yukon River was a bit out of the way for a seal.
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Mackey was the ninth musher into this, the last of the Yukon River checkpoint before the race turns overland on the portage to Unalakleet on the Bering Sea.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Defending Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey Concedes 2011 Race AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Veterinarians worried they bordered on being too thin, an observation that intensified the scrutiny the 26-year-old experienced in each successive checkpoint along the Yukon River to Kaltag, and from there, overland to Unalakleet and then along the coast of Norton Sound.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Iditarod Dogs on the Edge AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Or, if you want a subtler smoke and a smaller fish, try the lustrous smoked Bering cisco that is fished in the northern waters of the Yukon River and available at select Wegmans $15 a pound, wegmans.com.
Holy Smokeds 2011
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Veterinarians worried they bordered on being too thin, an observation that intensified the scrutiny the 26-year-old experienced in each successive checkpoint along the Yukon River to Kaltag, and from there, overland to Unalakleet and then along the coast of Norton Sound.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Iditarod Dogs on the Edge AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Mackey was the ninth musher into this, the last of the Yukon River checkpoint before the race turns overland on the portage to Unalakleet on the Bering Sea.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Defending Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey Concedes 2011 Race AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Or, if you want a subtler smoke and a smaller fish, try the lustrous smoked Bering cisco that is fished in the northern waters of the Yukon River and available at select Wegmans $15 a pound, wegmans.com.
Holy Smokeds 2011
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I have been in mosquito swarms in beaver meadows in northern Michigan, in wetlands in Canada, and near Alaska's Yukon River.
A bear hug for Mother Russia Alan Cooperman 2010
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I have been in mosquito swarms in beaver meadows in northern Michigan, in wetlands in Canada, and near Alaska's Yukon River.
A bear hug for Mother Russia Alan Cooperman 2010
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