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Berks

British  
/ bɑːks /

abbreviation

  1. Berkshire

"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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I remember it clearly because I used this as an example in the principles of management class I taught that semester at Penn State University Berks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

It was nearly half a century later, in August, when a Pennsylvania police detective tracked down Grubb's fingerprints, the Berks County Coroner’s Office said.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2024

At Berks, which held families until 2021, each detainee cost about $1,200 per day, according to the draft memo, far beyond the $142 average in fiscal year 2022.

From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2023

If the lanternfly invasion were an earthquake, Berks County would be its epicenter.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

The volumes came to the Library in pursuance of a bequest from the Rev. J. Tickell, Rector of Gawsworth, Cheshire and East Mersea, Essex, who died at Wargrave, Berks, July 3, 1802.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn