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Braddock

[ brad-uhk ]

noun

  1. Edward, 1695–1755, British general in America.
  2. a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh: the site of General Braddock's defeat by the French and Indians 1755.


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Kurt Braddock, an assistant professor of public communication at American University who researches political violence, told the wire service that Biden's critique of Trump is a "false equivalence" to the violent rhetoric and threats deployed by right-wing Trump supporters against election workers, judges and other officials.

From Salon

Born in 1982 in the industrial town of Braddock, Pa., a short distance from Pittsburgh and the site of Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill, she picked up a camera in her teens.

By that point Braddock’s days of promise and prosperity were long past, with a predominantly African American remnant population left stranded.

The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier creating a self-portrait in Braddock, Pa., her hometown, at the site of a footbridge over the railroad.

A continuous high-pitched din — a bit whirring, a bit crunching — echoed over the Bottom, the residential sliver of Braddock, Pa., nearest to the industrial plants and the Monongahela River.

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