Mr. WADE. I move to take up House bill No. 15 to provide a temporary government for the Territory ofMontana.
2016, Claire Krulikowski,Moonlight on the Ganga:
While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops inMontana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, inCNN[1]:
First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in theMontana wilderness.
A place in theUnited States, named after Montana Territory:
A unisexgiven name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.
2002,Danny Katz,Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published2002,→ISBN, page12:
'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kidMontana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girlMontana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all theseMontanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases.[…]
2020 September 27, Stella Chan, Paul Vercammen, Artemis Moshtaghian and Amir Vera, “NFL legend Joe Montana tussles with woman who attempted to kidnap his grandchild, police say”, inCNN[2]:
Legendary NFL quarterback JoeMontana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
“Montana”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025