Alaska

[uh-las-kuh] / əˈlæs kə /

NOUN

u.s. state

Synonyms

WEAK

America's Icebox Seward's Folly the 49th state the Klondike the Last Frontier the frozen North

Example Sentences

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Alaska donors contributed just over $520,000 to Peltola in the same time period.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Alaska Airlines announced a deal to buy Hawaiian Airlines in December 2023, and the merger was approved in the fall of 2024.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

They need four seats to win back the chamber, and party leaders have highlighted North Carolina, Maine, Ohio and Alaska as the most plausible path.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

The company also proposed a public investment fund focused on AI that could regularly distribute returns to Americans, a concept similar to a sovereign-wealth fund in Alaska.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

On a river in Alaska while training I once saw a place where a whirlpool had frozen into a cone, open at the bottom like a beautiful trap waiting to suck the whole team down.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen