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Cuttack

American

[kuht-uhk] / ˈkʌt ək /

noun

a city in E Odisha, in NE India.

Cuttack British

/ kʌˈtæk /

noun

a city in NE India, in E Odisha (formerly Orissa) near the mouth of the Mahanadi River: former state capital until 1948. Pop: 535 139 (2001)

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Sounds of ambulance sirens have been going off every 30 minutes outside the trauma centre in the SCB hospital in the city of Cuttack - where critically injured passengers have been wheeled in.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2023

Mr Sarangi, who's the police commissioner for the state capital, Bhubaneswar, and its twin city Cuttack, reopened the case and gave it a code name - "Operation Silent Viper".

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2021

The board, based in Mumbai, operates from eight other cities representing the major linguistic centers: New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati and Cuttack.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2012

Then Patel took a train to Cuttack, capital of Orissa.

From Time Magazine Archive

They said I must go towards Midnapur or Cuttack.

From Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Hill, S. C. (Samuel Charles)

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