Syracuse

[sir-uh-kyoos, -kyooz]

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noun

a city in central New York.
Italian Siracusa.��a seaport in SE Sicily: ancient city founded by the Carthaginians 734 b.c.; battles 413 b.c., 212 b.c.

Syracuse

noun

Italian name: Siracusa.��a port in SW Italy, in SE Sicily on the Ionian Sea: founded in 734 _bc by Greeks from Corinth and taken by the Romans in 212 _bc , after a siege of three years. Pop: 123 657 (2001)
a city in central New York State, on Lake Onondaga: site of the capital of the Iroquois Indian federation. Pop: 144 001 (2003 est)

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Syracusan adjective

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“We’re going through this squeezing of our ecosystem in Hollywood,” said J. Christopher Hamilton, a practicing entertainment attorney and a professor at Syracuse University who focuses on the business of media.

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Syracuse University law professor Shubha Ghosh said: "A lot of the images that Midjourney produces just seem to be copies of copyright characters that might be in new locations or with a new background."

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Pupils from the secondary school can apply for a scholarship to spend a year at Syracuse University, in memory of 35 students from there who died in the bombing.

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Muir worked in a local Syracuse TV newsroom where staffers tracked his growth spurt with pencil marks on a wall.

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Richard Monetti was aged just 20 when he was flying home to New York from London for the Christmas holidays, after studying abroad as one of 35 students from Syracuse University.

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