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providence

[prov-i-duhns] / ˈprɒv ɪ dəns /
NOUN
divine government
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Tristan Keyser-Parker, a senior at Brown University, was in a workshop inside the school’s Barus & Holley engineering building Saturday afternoon when he heard someone yell “Intruder!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2022

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Heads turn and smartphone cameras rise as the boxy, futuristic cars slip through the streets of this 384-year-old port city.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2020

NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas -- The first time Hideki Matsuyama heard the name Tiger Woods, he was just five years old.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 4, 2016

PROVIDENCE, the Divine, of the Lord extends to every thing, even to the minutest particulars concerning marriages, and in marriages, 229, 316.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel




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