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  • proper noun New Jersey

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies

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Examples

  • New Jersey is called the Garden State, and Gattina from the blog also named Gattina remembers that you can blog about flowers, as well as herbs, plants, or veggies for Weekend Herb Blogging.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Kalyn Denny 2006

  • New Jersey is called the Garden State, and Gattina from the blog also named Gattina remembers that you can blog about flowers, as well as herbs, plants, or veggies for Weekend Herb Blogging.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #47 Recap What's Cooking Where You Are? Kalyn Denny 2006

  • In 2004, during a summer hiatus, he directed and starred in a low-budget indie film called Garden State, about a young actor/waiter on antidepressants who, after nine years in LA, comes home to New Jersey for his mother's funeral and finds a panacea in the form of Natalie Portman.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Jasper Rees 2012

  • Under the practice, vehicle owners register and insure their vehicles in other states to get cheaper premiums, even though the Garden State is their principal residence or the insured vehicle is mostly kept in New Jersey.

    Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) 2010

  • Under the practice, vehicle owners register and insure their vehicles in other states to get cheaper premiums, even though the Garden State is their principal residence or the insured vehicle is mostly kept in New Jersey.

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

  • Under the practice, vehicle owners register and insure their vehicles in other states to get cheaper premiums, even though the Garden State is their principal residence or the insured vehicle is mostly kept in New Jersey.

    New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com 2010

  • The teen set has the The Bad Girls Club, and of course, the residents of the Garden State have been totally embarrassed by the cast antics of Jerseylicious and The Jersey Shore, where questionable choices, competition, drunken, mean spirited behavior, and blatant disrespect makes you rich and famous.

    Lori Bryant Woolridge: Can We Get a Little Sister Love? Lori Bryant Woolridge 2011

  • New Jersey was an outlier: The Garden State posted a below-average 9.4% unemployment rate last year.

    Job Search Stretches Past a Year for Millions Sara Murray 2011

  • Vehicle trips were down by more than 1% on both the Turnpike and Garden State.

    Toll Roads in New Jersey Face Shortfall Heather Haddon 2011

  • His appointments could reshape the seven-member panel, which over the past half-century has transformed the Garden State, seizing control of school funding and hijacking the zoning powers of towns and cities, among other moves.

    New Jersey's Judicial Road to Fiscal Perdition Steven Malanga 2012

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