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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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“I thought if I just do what they ask me to do, this is gonna get wrapped up and I’ll go back to work” at Cahaba Heights.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2024

Then, over the objections of many in the audience who demanded a chance to comment before a vote was taken, the board officially transferred Dressback from Cahaba Heights Elementary to the alternative school.

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 Whitman, Walt

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