Kalamazoo
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Within five years, Operation Breakthrough, the ambitious, but ultimately costly, delay-ridden and politically unpopular federal initiative that had propped up the Kalamazoo factory and eight others like it across the country, ran out of money.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
In Kalamazoo, the audience got to experience this on “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” which opened the show, as well as “It Ain’t Me, Babe” and “Watching the River Flow.”
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025
Hours earlier in southwestern Michigan, two tornadoes blitzed the city of Portage near Kalamazoo on Tuesday night, destroying homes and commercial buildings, including a FedEx facility that was ripped apart.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
Taylor Koopman, of the Kalamazoo County Administrator's office, told MLive.com that 50 people were trapped in the partially destroyed FedEx facility.
From BBC • May 7, 2024
Ella took me into the car, and we rode the seventy miles to Kalamazoo.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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