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Charlottesville

American  
[shahr-luhts-vil] / ˈʃɑr lətsˌvɪl /

noun

  1. a city in central Virginia.


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Hackney lives outside Charlottesville, Va., where she now works as an administrator in the English department at the University of Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

If Charlottesville taught journalists to be wary of amplifying ideology, the current moment demands an understanding that, in an attention economy, amplification itself is the ideology.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

He cited in particular his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2025

They appear in the museum just as they looked when they were removed from parks and plazas in Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., respectively.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

Thirteen thousand students in the three cities that had moved forward with integration—Front Royal, Charlottesville, and Norfolk—found themselves sitting at home in the fall of 1958.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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