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Beckley

American  
[bek-lee] / ˈbɛk li /

noun

  1. a city in SW West Virginia.


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But the cabin has internet, so messages kept coming in about her one-woman No Kings demonstration the prior weekend in Beckley, West Virginia.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Sarah Broadbent from Beckley in East Sussex runs a glamping business and discovered some of her properties were being shown on a scam site, which has since been shut down.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2025

“The alliance structure was built to win the Cold War and it’s sort of atrophied,” said Michael Beckley, a scholar of great power competition at Tufts University.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Kelly has around 40 years of experience working in hospitals in historic coal mining cities like Beckley and Welch.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023

Other Republican operatives like John Beckley, the Speaker of the House, were focusing on the political factions in Pennsylvania, another key state.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis