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Bathurst

American  
[bath-erst] / ˈbæθ ərst /

noun

  1. a town in eastern New South Wales, in southeast Australia.

  2. a port on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in northeastern New Brunswick, in southeast Canada: summer resort.

  3. former name of Banjul.


Bathurst British  
/ ˈbæθəst /

noun

  1. a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)

  2. a port in E Canada, in NE New Brunswick: rich mineral resources. Pop: 16 427 (2001)

  3. the former name (until 1973) of Banjul

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The new Altruist tool will not replace advisors as some investors fear because of the holistic nature of wealth management, RBC analyst Ben Bathurst said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The Mustang will be eligible to race on six continents next season, from Bathurst to Le Mans and Daytona to Silverstone.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Brian Bathurst is a builder by trade but when we meet he is strapped in the back of a coastguard helicopter as it clatters through the dramatic peaks of Glen Coe.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2023

However, a second inquiry led by former chief justice Thomas Bathurst revisited her convictions in 2022 after new evidence suggested two of the children had a genetic mutation that could have caused their deaths.

From Reuters • Jun. 6, 2023

On these Downs from 3000 to 4000 sheep can easily be kept by a single shepherd, whereas in Bathurst 800 would call into play all the watchfulness of a single individual.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von