State
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editNoun
editState (plural States)
- A current governing polity, country, city-state, or community.
- (often with definite article) The current governing polity, country, city-state, or community under which the speaker lives.
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editState
- State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
- 2019 February 25, Steven Muma, “NCAA tournament position stays tenuous as NC State does the bare minimum”, in Backing the Pack[1]:
- The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.