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Battle Creek

American  

noun

  1. a city in S Michigan.


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Carol Breed, who backs the Detroit Lions, considered travelling to Highmark Stadium from her home in Battle Creek, Michigan, after she heard they would play the Canadian national anthem.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Soon Battle Creek was known as Cereal City, with more than 100 small producers of various kinds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Two groups boycotted the event and held breakaway conventions, one more than 100 miles to the north in Houghton Lake, Mich., and another more than 50 miles southeast in Battle Creek, Mich.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

In California, top candidates include two dams on the Eel River, south of the Klamath, and a string of six dams on Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2023

Kellogg was a doctor who ran a “sanitarium,” or health clinic, in Battle Creek, Michigan.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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