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florida

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Editorial note

Note that Florida combines low housing costs, lack of an income tax, super-short commutes, and very little traffic.

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Quick take

A state of the United States. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of florida gathered in one view.

noun

A state of the United States. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville.

noun

The peninsula which makes up most of the state of Florida, United States.

noun

Several places in South and Central America:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for florida.

noun

Two adjacent cities in Vicente López department, Buenos Aires province, Argentina: Florida Este and Florida Oeste.

See also: everglade-state, sunshine-state

Example sentences

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Note that Florida combines low housing costs, lack of an income tax, super-short commutes, and very little traffic.

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The southern tip of Texas across to the southern tip of Florida is extremely reasonable as a water claim.

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My youth in rural Texas was punctuated by a two year stint in Florida during middle school.

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The florida voting paper and damn hole punching was and remains utterly crazy.

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Edit 2: The arrests in Florida were tied to JP Morgan hack.

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They regularly do the same thing with their navy in various ways, whether off the Atlantic or Pacific coast, or near Cuba / Florida waters.

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I was on the beach down in Florida a few years ago and found a dead girl with her hands tied.

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> the inability of some voters in 2000 in Florida to fully punch a paper ballot Blame the user?

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California has few mosquitoes because it's cold when it's wet and it's dry when it's warm, and Florida has a lot because it's got warmth and water aplenty.

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At the end of that phone call I thought to myself: if I was in Florida I would love to work with this guy.

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I have a client in Florida looking for a EE that will also develop software to work on the devices they create and have manufactured.

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Ask people from central Florida how well things went for those with no cash when the last Hurricane came through and wiped out all electricity for a few weeks.

Quote examples

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Organized white violence against blacks continued into the 1920s—in 1921 a white mob leveled Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street,” and in 1923 another one razed the black town of Rosewood, Florida—and virtually no one was punished.

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(search: florida "donna watts" "fausto lopez" 2011) The net result is that police are held to a lower standard of law than everyone else, and that creates a culture of corruption.

Proper noun examples

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My step-grandmother is a business lawyer who has passed the bar in multiple states including Florida.

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Not even tagged Florida; my car's entertainment system made me climb a tree and launch t-shirts at traffic, blister, etc.

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In the US, states make their own regulations on energy - and it is reflected in the state of Florida.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use florida in a sentence?

Note that Florida combines low housing costs, lack of an income tax, super-short commutes, and very little traffic.

What does florida mean?

A state of the United States. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville.

What part of speech is florida?

florida is commonly used as noun.