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Aligarh

American  
[ah-lee-guhr, al-uh-gahr] / ˈɑ liˌgʌr, ˈæl əˌgɑr /

noun

  1. a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India.


Aligarh British  
/ ˌɑːlɪˈɡɜː, ˌælɪ- /

noun

  1. a city in N India, in W Uttar Pradesh, with a famous Muslim university (1920). Pop: 667 732 (2001)

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"Many conventional quantum dots are toxic, because they're derived from heavy metals," explains Md Palashuddin Sk, an assistant professor of chemistry at Aligarh Muslim University in India.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Ms Sahara says Banu visited him once in Aligarh when he was on his deathbed.

From BBC • May 25, 2023

Sewa has also showed off its oxygen concentrator donations to Aligarh Muslim University, as well as mass equipment supplies throughout India, in both its public communications and in an email sent to me.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2021

I passed an exit sign for Aligarh, a town where I had spent five years at an old public university in the ’90s.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2020

We came in sight of Aligarh shortly before daybreak on the 5th October.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh

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