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Definition of upstate
: the chiefly northerly sections of a state; also : the chiefly rural part of a state when the major metropolitan area is in the south
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Breakfast at the Phoenicia Diner is also an upstate must.
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After that, March moved to a nine-acre property upstate and launched the New York Firewood Company, which now supplies kindling to 75 restaurants throughout the tristate area.
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The idea that a woman grows up only by settling down was reiterated in when Hannah Horvath, the show’s protagonist, became pregnant and took a job teaching at a college upstate, a move that facilitated a kind of spiritual epiphany.
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Just like my childhood dog is staying on a farm upstate.
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With the disappearance of manufacturing upstate, prisons provide many of the middle-class jobs factories once did.
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First Known Use of upstate
1901
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: the northern part of a state
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