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Kettering

American  
[ket-er-ing] / ˈkɛt ər ɪŋ /

noun

  1. Charles Franklin, 1876–1958, U.S. engineer and inventor.

  2. a city in SW Ohio.


Kettering British  
/ ˈkɛtərɪŋ /

noun

  1. a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: footwear industry. Pop: 51 063 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But my family’s health insurance, supplied by their labor union, wouldn’t cover care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where I had 33 radiation treatments.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Kettering Town, nicknamed the Poppies, spawned an industry worth hundreds of millions of pounds when Kettering Tyres appeared on their shirts on 24 January 1976.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

His philanthropy included donations to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, according to his website.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Ravetch's group is now collaborating with scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Duke University to further evaluate the therapy.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

His brother, Mr. Thomas Toller, of Kettering, delivered the charge—Mr. Edward Mial, then of Leicester, the introductory discourse; and Mr. Mursell, of the same place, preached to the people.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas

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