Dartmouth
Americannoun
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a coastal city in S Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on Halifax harbor, across from Halifax.
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a city in SE Massachusetts.
noun
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a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
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a city in SE Canada, in S Nova Scotia, on Halifax Harbour: oil refineries and shipyards. Pop: 65 741 (2001)
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“I think that one was kind of surprising, to tell you the truth, and that can be quite powerful,” Barabas, the Dartmouth professor, told me.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
Dartmouth Food Festival has also been impacted by the storm with organisers pushing some events planned for Friday back to Saturday morning.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Recently published enrollment data for the fall of 2026 from schools like the University of Michigan and Dartmouth College indicate a more pronounced computer-science decline is underway this year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Shendure led the research alongside Dr. Chengxiang Qiu, a molecular and systems biologist at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
A sign to the left read main office, and a corkboard next to it listed the graduating seniors’ college destinations: Yale, Penn, Harvard, Brown, Williams, Princeton, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Stanford.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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