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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 680 km (420 mi) long, rising in eastern Colorado and flowing northeast and east across southern Nebraska then southeast through northeast-central Kansas, where it joins the Smoky Hill River to form the Kansas River.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
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Examples
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Since 1951, when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation dammed the Republican River, creating Bonny Lake, the local community has enjoyed a recreational and economic livelihood.
Lake-Be-Gone Woes Jim Carlton 2011
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Last month, the local Republic River Water Conservation District, a board responsible for keeping Colorado in water compliance with Kansas, approved the funding for a multi-million dollar pipeline that will pump water into the Republican River from a farm willing to retire 6,000 acres.
Liquid Gold 2008
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Seepage from the Ogallala in eastern Colorado creates the headwaters for the North Fork of the Republican River, which flows past the Adamson family farm, and into Nebraska and Kansas.
Liquid Gold 2008
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One sign of trouble: in just the past two decades, farmers tapping into the local aquifers have helped to shorten the North Fork of the Republican River, which starts in Yuma County, by 10 miles.
Liquid Gold 2008
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Scientists and engineers say there's a clear lesson from the Republican River saga: water and energy are inextricably linked.
Liquid Gold 2008
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In fact, Adamson adds, entire stretches of the nearby Republican River are gone.
Liquid Gold 2008
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The Journal's Joe Barrett recently reported that Kansas is threatening to sue neighboring Nebraska for consuming more than its share of the Republican River.
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The last Sioux were disappearing in the south, along the banks of Republican River.
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They announced that they had come to take charge of the party, which was to continue its survey to the south, down to the Republican River.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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They announced that they had come to take charge of the party, which was to continue its survey to the south, down to the Republican River.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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