Citations:US American

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English citations of US American

Adjective
  • 2005, Alison Raymond Lanier & Jef C. Davis, Living in the U.S.A., (2005:9)
    "Dominant U.S. American values", "most experts will agree that there is a dominant US American culture"
Noun
  • 2005, A Dictionary of European Anglicisms, Manfred Görlach, entry for "Yankee"
    "European languages have adopted the British use (late eighteenth century) referring to an US American (not specifically a northerner)."
  • 2009, Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability, page 290, note 60:
    In previous chapters, I tried to use constructions like "citizens of the US" and "US American." In this chapter, it's unwieldy to the point of incomprehensibility.

(attributive use)

  • 1990, Jens Fejø, Monopoly law and market: studies of EC competition law with US American antitrust law as a frame of reference and supported by basic market economics
  • 1997, Ana Celia Zentella, Growing up bilingual, page 39:
    Since 1917, US American citizenship and Puerto Rican national identity have co-existed on the island.
  • 2004, Cordelia Candelaria, Peter J. García, Encyclopedia of Latino popular culture, page 352:
    This parallel to the US American Revolution provides Mexican Americans a strong underpinning of cultural independence to balance the heritage of State and Church despotism.