Columbia

[kuh-luhm-bee-uh] / kəˈlʌm bi ə /

NOUN

United States

Synonyms

WEAK

America Land of Liberty New World U.S. U.S.A. US US of A USA land of opportunity the States

Example Sentences

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Around 1990, Coe’s contract with Columbia ended and amid personal troubles including a divorce and trouble with the IRS, his Key West, Fla., home was seized.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Shuck conducted the research while he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia Climate School.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Marine Systems rose 21%, driven by higher volume of Virginia and Columbia class submarines.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Dean Lewis Buntrock was born June 6, 1931, and grew up in Columbia, S.D., a farming town that was then home to about 250 people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

That is what two professors from Columbia University, Sheena Iyengar and Raymond Fisman, have done, and they have discovered that if you make people explain themselves, something very strange and troubling happens.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell