Arkansas

[ahr-kuhn-saw, ar-kan-zuhs] / ˈɑr kənˌsɔ, ærˈkæn zəs /

NOUN

u.s. state

Synonyms

WEAK

Bear State Bowie State Hot Springs State Ozark country Razorback State Toothpick State Wonder State land of opportunity natural state

Example Sentences

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As he told an Arkansas sports podcast shortly after he accepted the job in June 2023, “They’re saying things like, ‘We want to be a state championship program, and here’s what we’re willing to do.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

When growing up in the 1910s, blues singer-guitarist Robert Johnson moved from Mississippi to Memphis, Tenn., and then Arkansas, before settling in the Mississippi Delta when his mother married a sharecropper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

Phelps was born in Arkansas and spent part of her youth in Guadalajara.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton declared her “the greatest that’s ever been.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

I'd flown to South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and California to argue cases on behalf of condemned children over the preceding months.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson