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Amarillo

American  
[am-uh-ril-oh] / ˌæm əˈrɪl oʊ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Texas.


Amarillo British  
/ ˌæməˈrɪləʊ /

noun

  1. an industrial city in NW Texas. Pop: 178 612 (2003 est)

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Paxton filed a lawsuit in Amarillo, more than 700 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, where Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has heard nearly all cases since Trump appointed him to the bench in 2018.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

A former star student and long-distance runner from a prominent family in Amarillo, Texas, Griffin goes into her first session with a competitor’s single-minded determination to, as she writes, “get to the finish line.”

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

Data-center developer Fermi has not secured a cornerstone tenant for its Project Matador campus in Amarillo, Texas.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

She performed with opera companies in Nashville and Atlanta, and in Texas she sang with the Dallas Opera, with symphony orchestras in Irving and Plano, and with a master chorale in Amarillo.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2026

But before that most pleasant and sometimes exhausting human trait took hold, I had three days of namelessness in a beautiful motor hotel in the middle of Amarillo.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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