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Mississippi

/ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi/ interjection C2
  1. Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to equal approximately one second in length.
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I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days promises to make good the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 957 · C1
The Mississippi Delta is widely recognized as the undisputed birthplace of modern American music.
From the Delta to Memphis, p. 1 · C1
Before Samuel Langhorne Clemens became an internationally celebrated literary luminary, he was an apprentice pilot navigating the capricious currents of the Mississippi River.
The Pilot and the Pen, p. 1 · C2
He quickly discovered that the Mississippi was not a static entity but rather a living, breathing organism that altered its course with dizzying frequency.
The Pilot and the Pen, p. 1 · C2

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