Bangor
Americannoun
noun
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a university town in NW Wales, in Gwynedd, on the Menai Strait. Pop: 15 280 (2001)
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a town in SE Northern Ireland, in North Down district, Co Down, on Belfast Lough. Pop: 58 388 (2001)
Example Sentences
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And in a sign of how important this race is, CNN is teaming up with a Maine paper, the Bangor Daily News, to host another debate next week.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
“I want to be super clear: this is not about what any one person’s views are right now,” he told The 19th in Bangor.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
The auction house, in Bangor, County Down, has two human heads listed for sale in an ongoing auction: the 3,000-year-old Egyptian head and a Dayak tribal trophy skull from Borneo, Indonesia.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Jim Bradley, a financial advisor in Bangor, Maine, has told certain clients they would be better off taking the RMD now rather than delaying it with the still working exception.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
When a convention of Spiritualists was held in Cleveland in February 1852, hundreds of articles about the rapid spread of spirits were written in papers from Bangor, Maine, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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