Council Bluffs

noun

1. a city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb.

Example Sentences

So he couldn’t believe his luck when a recruiter this year asked if he’d leave his job at an electrical-supply warehouse to work at a massive Google server farm in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the river from where he lives in Omaha.

From Time

Every time you send an email or store a photo or save something on the cloud, it’s likely you’re depending on a data center like the one in Council Bluffs.

From Time

There are limited opportunities to do the work he enjoys in Council Bluffs, he says—he had a good job at a Frito-Lay plant, but PepsiCo closed it more than a decade ago.

From Time

This horrible cruelty took place in the vicinity of Council Bluffs.

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Council Bluffs is now the most populous and flourishing city of Western Iowa.

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His widow survives and yet makes her home with the daughter in Council Bluffs.

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See our volume xxii, p. 275, note 231, for the fort at Council Bluffs.

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The hour was early; the dwellers in Council Bluffs were not yet astir.

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