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Lockport

American  
[lok-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈlɒkˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

  1. a city in W New York, on the New York State Barge Canal.


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To have a shot at keeping the zoae alive and thriving, Akers said, “I had to re-create the ocean”—in her house in Lockport, New York, 500 miles from the Atlantic.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

Other GM plants have yet to vote, including its Lockport, New York plant.

From Reuters Nov. 15, 2023

Only nine facilities are still listed without vote totals on the UAW vote tracker, including GM's Lockport, New York, components plant with about 1,200 members.

From Reuters Nov. 15, 2023

The ban was praised by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which sued the state Education Department on behalf of two Lockport parents in 2020.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2023

"Well, it might be almost anything," responded Jed, unable to withstand the chance to make a little joke, "but it happens to be Lockport."

From Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains by Webster, Frank V.

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