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Charlottesville

American  
[shahr-luhts-vil] / ˈʃɑr lətsˌvɪl /

noun

  1. a city in central Virginia.


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Charlottesville has long since come to betray all the cynicism of a pseudo-event.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

If Charlottesville taught journalists to be wary of amplifying ideology, the current moment demands an understanding that, in an attention economy, amplification itself is the ideology.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

He cited in particular his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025

The year after the Charleston church massacre, a young Black woman, Zyahna Bryant, petitioned the city of Charlottesville to remove its statues of Jackson and Lee.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

Monticello, which means “little mountain” in Italian, was Thomas Jefferson’s plantation home, located on the top of a hill near the town of Charlottesville, Virginia.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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