See East Carolina on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2007, Bland Simpson, The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle, →ISBN:",
"text": "When I heard about a party from East Carolina having found the lost Batts Island in the 1970s, I sought out and asked East Carolina geologist Vince Bellis about that find.",
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"ref": "2012, John Allen Tucker, John F. Kennedy's North Carolina Campaign, →ISBN, page 63:",
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"ref": "2013, William A. Link, William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education, →ISBN:",
"text": "In the campaign for a medical school, East Carolina fused eastern North Carolina jingoism, resentment by the east and west of Piedmont dominance, and ant-Chapel Hill sentiment.",
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"ref": "2013, Sarah Bryan, Beverly Patterson, Michelle Lanier, African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina, →ISBN, page 164:",
"text": "I wanted to describe the situation at East Carolina, which was rather interesting, in that my parents had worked at this institution for years.",
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"ref": "2014, Nana Bonsu, Claimed, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2015, Deborah B. McGregor, Cynthia M. Adams, The Guide to U.S. Legal Analysis and Communication, →ISBN:",
"text": "The Court concludes, however, that Blue Sail Cayman solicited business sufficiently in East Carolina to bring it within East Carolina's jurisdictional statue.",
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