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Iowa

[ ahy-uh-wuh; sometimes ahy-uh-wey ]

noun

plural Iowas, (especially collectively) Iowa
  1. a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). : Des Moines. : IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
  2. a river flowing southeast from northern Iowa to the Mississippi River. 291 miles (470 km) long.
  3. a member of an American Indian people originally of Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota but now of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.
  4. the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa Indians.


Iowa

/ ˈɪəʊə /

noun

  1. a state of the N central US, in the Midwest: consists of rolling plains crossed by many rivers, with the Missouri forming the western border and the Mississippi the eastern. Capital: Des Moines. Pop: 2 944 062 (2003 est). Area: 144 887 sq km (55 941 sq miles) AbbreviationIa.with zip codeIA
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Iowa

  1. State in the midwestern United States bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, and Nebraska and South Dakota to the west. Its capital and largest city is Des Moines .
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The 2018 news snippet featured a cerebral palsy patient in Iowa named Louis whose care was negatively impacted by MCO involvement.

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Activists with One Iowa in Des Moines, which works toward bolstering equality in education, workplace culture and healthcare access, have taken a similar approach in the wake of Trump's presidency.

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A small plane flying from Iowa to Minnesota in the US crashed into a suburban home and caused it to catch on fire, officials said on Saturday.

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"A new company would have to continue to manage customer data under the privacy policy," said Anya Prince, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.

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He told how his father, a police chief in small-town Iowa, was fired because he stood up to the local good-old-boy network, refusing, on principle, to brook their petty tyrannies.

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