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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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

Understanding how individual rivers respond to warming is challenging because direct measurements in northern Alaska are limited.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

United Airlines fell 3% while Southwest Airlines declined 1.7%, and Alaska Air Group declined more than 0.9%.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Her aunt in Anchorage even texted to let Sullivan know that news of her protest had reached Alaska.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

For mammoth and man alike, Alaska was a mere extension of Siberia.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari