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Swampscott

American  
[swomp-skuht] / ˈswɒmp skət /

noun

  1. a city in NE Massachusetts.


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The Massachusetts native, who grew up in the North Shore town of Swampscott, picked up two adjacent homes in Nantucket for $42 million in 2023.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025

He told investigators that on Jan. 1 he visited his mother in Swampscott, Mass., a roughly 33-mile drive away, and ran errands for her at Whole Foods and CVS.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023

“I don’t have any people to paint on the beach, I don’t have any umbrellas on the sand, nothing that gives it any spirit,” said Shasha, 59, of Swampscott, Mass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2021

Developers Andrew Rose and Mark Klaman, who live in Swampscott, plan on redeveloping the property into 18 condominiums — restricted to those who are 55 years of age or older.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2017

The Swampscott fishermen still relate How a strange sea-monster stole thair bait; How their nets were tangled in loops and knots, And they found dead crabs in their lobster-pots.

From Over the Teacups by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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