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Fort Lauderdale

American  
[law-der-dayl] / ˈlɔ dərˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE Florida: seashore resort.


Fort Lauderdale British  
/ ˈlɔːdəˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE Florida, on the Atlantic. Pop: 162 917 (2003 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After Fort Lauderdale, Cliffe began visiting dozens of schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The USS Fort Lauderdale, is docked at the port to serve as a logistics hub.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

US helicopters have been ferrying in aid and US Marines have used a landing craft to deliver supplies from the USS Fort Lauderdale, an amphibious transport dock ship docked at La Guaira.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

In Fort Lauderdale, that downtime was spent cycling in and around their luxurious beach hotel and playing a high-end golf course - the PGA National - before a thunderstorm cut the round short.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Among the twenty Negro Peace Corpsmen I talked with, a very impressive fellow to me was Larry Jackson, a Morgan State College graduate from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who had joined the Peace Corps in 1962.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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