Definitions
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- noun the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean
- noun a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico
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Examples
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Don Francisco Colombo, who with an armada of twenty galleons sailed in January 1599 to protect Porto Rico from the English.
The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain Charles William Colby 1911
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What would we say, I ask you, if Porto Rico, which is only one-tenth the size of
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Stew the apples in a little water till they become a pulp, placing with them half a dozen cloves and half a dozen strips of the yellow part only of the outside of the rind of a _fresh_ lemon of the size and thickness of the thumb-nail; sweeten with brown sugar, that known as Porto Rico being the most economical.
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Leaving with his daily afternoon coffee fix, Porto Rico customer Devin Nee , 25 years old, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, said he had noticed the increase, but for good coffee, it's worth it.
Coffee's Jolt Hits the Wallet First Sumathi Reddy 2011
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On just one 18-week tour, he traveled 15,000 miles by rail, playing 85 recitals and performing many of his own works, from the sentimental dazzle of "The Dying Poet" to the sultry syncopations of "Souvenir de Porto Rico."
Soundtrack to the Celebration of Lincoln's Bicentennial Year Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2009
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S. 138, that neither the Philippines nor Porto Rico was territory which had been incorporated in the Union or become a part of the United States, as distinguished from merely belonging to it . . .
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice? 2009
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Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298, 305 (1922) (emphasis added).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would Sotomayor be the First Hispanic Justice? 2009
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Right now, 27 states, including D.C. and also Porto Rico, fall into that high unemployment category.
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Outbreak and suppression of plague in Porto Rico: An account of the course of the epidemic and the measures employed for its suppression by the United States Public Health Service by Richard Henry Creel
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Get the Government off our Backs! 2008
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If she can say this about Porto Rico, she may consider saying the same about Wales, right!
more sillyness =Good old Tommy Cooper Valleys Mam 2008
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