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Cahaba

American  
[kuh-hah-buh, -haw-] / kəˈhɑ bə, -ˈhɔ- /
Also Cahawba

noun

  1. a river in N central Alabama, flowing S to the Alabama River. 191 miles (307 km) long.


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She moved into administration and advanced; in 2022 she was appointed principal of Cahaba Heights Elementary School.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024

On March 4, while still barred from the Cahaba Heights campus, Dressback met with Freeman, Rainey and Hanson in the conference room at the central office to discuss timesheets.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024

That strategy has been employed by Dr. John B. Waits, CEO of Cahaba Medical Care, which has 17 clinics in underserved communities in Alabama.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2021

John, I believed you researched this: We decided to do a float down the Little Cahaba River, which is just outside of Birmingham, Ala. We got these inner tubes and we floated down this river.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018

Its more than hundred hecatombs of dead represent several times that number of their brethren, for whom the prison gates of Belle Isle, Danville, Salisbury, Florence, Columbia, and Cahaba open'd only in eternity.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

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