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Holland
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    They ended with the national anthems of England, Holland, and the United States.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    Alex is dead. He was killed in the war, six months ago. In Holland.  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    Holland claimed much of its land from the sea, you know.  (source)
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    "In Holland, too," Mama added from across the room, "and Belgium and France."  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    They beheaded their monarchs—King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette—and declared war on England, Spain, and Holland.  (source)
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    Every morning I'd been ordering up the hotel breakfasts, grimly plowing through them — wasn't Holland meant to be famous for its coffee?  (source)
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    Like some of Galileo's previous manuscripts, Diagramma was smuggled out of Rome by a friend and quietly published in Holland.  (source)
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    ...there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.  (source)
    Holland = informal reference to the Netherlands
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    No, Rabbi, six million in Poland and Germany and Holland and France and ...  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    Usually it was fog in January in Holland, dank, chill, and gray.  (source)
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    Piece by piece he was assembling the costly treasures for its furnishing — fine hand-turned bedsteads and chests and chairs from the skilled Wethersfield joiner, Peter Blinn, glossy pewter plates and a set of silver spoons from Boston, real china bowls of blue and white Delft from Holland.  (source)
    Holland = the Netherlands
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    Holland and Belgium fell.  (source)
    Holland = Informal reference to the Netherlands (confusion arises because important provinces in the Netherlands are North Holland and South Holland).
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    People in a place called Holland do.  (source)
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    At least that's what Mrs. Holland was always telling us last year, when we studied U.S. History.  (source)
    Holland = untracked name in this novel
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    The Holland Tunnel.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel connecting New York City with Jersey City
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    "Her name is Mae Holland," Francis said, and for the first time, looked down to her.  (source)
    Holland = untracked name in this novel
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    "Tell me what you told him," she says, tipping her head toward Holland.  (source)
    Holland = untracked name in this novel
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    Finally I came across a woman named Frances Holland who told me about two girls who befriended her when she was a new student in the seventh grade at Thomas Jefferson Junior High: Ruth Shilsky and Frances Moody.  (source)
    Holland = a person's name
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    "Are you going to tell me now where we're going?" she asked when we exited the Holland Tunnel.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel that connects New York City to Jersey City
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    Says Holland Smith, 'How can men like that ever be defeated?  (source)
    Holland = untracked name in this book
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    Holland flipped through his legal pad and stopped at a specific page.  (source)
    Holland = untracked name in this novel
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    Around noon, the models arrived and began to get ready in the store that had been Holland Farms Cheeses and Gifts until it had just recently gone out of business.  (source)
    Holland = part of a company name
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    Another evening, while driving back through Manhattan from a trauma conference in New Jersey, a streetwalker caught my eye as she stepped out from under an awning near the Holland Tunnel.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel that connects New York City to Jersey City
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    My pallbearers are: Harvey Moss, Duane Thomas, Steve Holland, Billy Bowles, Mike Mills, and Walter Robinson.  (source)
    Holland = a person's name
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    The increasing river of traffic for New York carried me along, and suddenly there was the welcoming maw of the Holland Tunnel and at the other end home.  (source)
    Holland = a tunnel connecting New York City and Jersey City
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    What I'd do, I figured, I'd go down to the Holland Tunnel and bum a ride, and then I'd bum another one, and another one, and another one, and in a few days I'd be somewhere out West where it was very pretty and sunny and where nobody'd know me and I'd get a job.  (source)
    Holland = tunnel connecting New York City to Jersey City
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