Seminole
noun
Sem·i·nole
ˈse-mə-ˌnōl 
plural Seminoles or Seminole
: a member of any of several groups of Indigenous people that emigrated to Florida from Georgia and Alabama in the 18th and 19th centuries and whose descendents now live in southern Florida and Oklahoma
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An 8-year-old girl from the same town, Seminole, died earlier this month.
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Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
An 8-year-old girl from the same town, Seminole, died this month.
—Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
The secretary of Health and Human Services had traveled to the small, remote city of Seminole, where 1,000 mourners for Daisy filled the wooden pews of an unmarked Mennonite church.
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
The second child died Thursday at a Lubbock hospital, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral in Seminole, the epicenter of the outbreak.
—Jamie Stengle, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
An 8-year-old girl from the same town, Seminole, died this month.
—Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
The secretary of Health and Human Services had traveled to the small, remote city of Seminole, where 1,000 mourners for Daisy filled the wooden pews of an unmarked Mennonite church.
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
The second child died Thursday at a Lubbock hospital, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral in Seminole, the epicenter of the outbreak.
—Jamie Stengle, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Seminole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Seminole. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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Seminole
noun
Sem·i·nole
ˈsem-ə-ˌnōl
: a member of an Indigenous people of Florida
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