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America

noun as in New World

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"Corn was domesticated in Central America and has only been in this area for a few thousand years."

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"New Jersey, it's time to point America in a better direction," Obama said in Newark.

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Over the past two years, America’s businesses have become increasingly reluctant to bring new employees on, especially as more recent uncertainty over the direction of tariffs made it harder to plan ahead.

Having suffered their first ever defeat by Ireland at Soldier Field in 2016, the All Blacks came from behind in an impressive second-half showing to crush Irish hopes of another memorable day in America.

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But these demographics are only one piece of the underappraised role of Africans and their descendants in building early America.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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