Cherokee
noun
Cher·o·kee
ˈcher-ə-(ˌ)kē 
ˈche-rə-
1
plural Cherokee or Cherokees
: a member of a nation of once-nomadic Indigenous peoples located originally in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina
2
: the Iroquoian language of the Cherokee people
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Twenty-four hours later, a 19-year-old man from Oakland Township in a 2011 Ford Edge, heading south on Rochester Road, crossed the center line and struck a northbound 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee head-on.
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Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2024
Kathi Ann Wallace of Grand Junction, a passenger in the Grand Cherokee, was also killed in the crash.
—Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2024
Women’s groups around the country began making their choices, and, in the decades that followed, states codified their selections and added others: the sagebrush of Nevada, the Cherokee rose of Georgia, the sego lily of Utah.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
Hazel Daines, 76, of Eureka Springs was driving a 2004 Jeep Cherokee northbound on Main Street in Eureka Springs around 3:50 p.m when the crash occurred, according to a fatal crash report from the Arkansas State Police.
—Amir Mahmoud, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2024
Kathi Ann Wallace of Grand Junction, a passenger in the Grand Cherokee, was also killed in the crash.
—Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2024
Women’s groups around the country began making their choices, and, in the decades that followed, states codified their selections and added others: the sagebrush of Nevada, the Cherokee rose of Georgia, the sego lily of Utah.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
Hazel Daines, 76, of Eureka Springs was driving a 2004 Jeep Cherokee northbound on Main Street in Eureka Springs around 3:50 p.m when the crash occurred, according to a fatal crash report from the Arkansas State Police.
—Amir Mahmoud, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Cherokee.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cherokee. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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Cherokee
noun
Cher·o·kee
ˈcher-ə-ˌkē
: a member of an Indigenous people originally from Tennessee and North Carolina
also
: their language
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