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Duluth

American  
[duh-looth, dy-lyt] / dəˈluθ, düˈlüt /

noun

  1. Daniel Greysolon Sieur, 1636–1710, French trader and explorer in Canada and Great Lakes region.

  2. a port in E Minnesota, on Lake Superior.


Duluth British  
/ dəˈluːθ /

noun

  1. a port in E Minnesota, at the W end of Lake Superior. Pop: 85 734 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

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At Duluth Airport in northern Minnesota, a few minutes after midnight, an Air Force guard spotted some sort of dark figure climbing a fence around a building that housed vital radar equipment.

From Literature

Every environment suggests or shapes the stories that are set there; even were the plots identical, a mystery set in Amarillo, for example, would play differently than one set in Duluth or Lafayette.

From Los Angeles Times

This station is situated in the north-central region of the state, between reservations, lakes and farms, hours away from the Canadian border or larger cities like Duluth or Grand Forks.

From Salon

One of them was Duluth, Minnesota, a former industrial city, home to about 90,000 people, a population that has grown slowly since 2020 after years of stagnation.

From BBC

“How are we going to verify that these chaplains are prepared for secular spaces?” said Sen. Nabilah Islam Parks, a Democrat from Duluth.

From Seattle Times