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mid-Atlantic adjective1Situated or occurring in the middle of the Atlantic ocean: the mid-Atlantic fault line...- The more immediate bad news is that tropical storm Jeanne is next in line coming across the mid-Atlantic Ocean.
- Scientists have already claimed that Atlantis could be at the bottom of the mid-Atlantic Ocean or somewhere in the Aegean Sea.
- Residents in Bermuda battened down and cruise ships scrambled out to sea yesterday as powerful Hurricane Fabian headed toward the mid-Atlantic island with 120 mph winds.
2Having characteristics of both Britain and America: mid-Atlantic accents...- It means rescuing Britain from mid-Atlantic ambiguity and locating it within the European value system of public welfare and social solidarity.
- He lives in San Francisco, works at the Dreamworks animation studio in Redwood City, has an American wife, and sports a curious mid-Atlantic accent that if anything sounds more Swedish than American or Yorkshire.
- Now, Dave's accent is fully mid-Atlantic and his presence is imbued with that distinctively American larger-than-life glow.
3Relating to states in the middle of the Atlantic coast of the United States, including New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.This population migrates from the Arctic to staging areas in southern Québec and wintering grounds along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States (New Jersey to North Carolina)....- This group have played extensively in the mid-Atlantic United States, travelling around Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Ohio.
- This type of yucca, which is more prevalent on the southern coast of the United States than our mid-Atlantic region, produces beautiful white flowers in June.
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