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Gaithersburg

American  
[gey-therz-burg] / ˈgeɪ θərzˌbɜrg /

noun

  1. a town in central Maryland.


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A drug manufacturer based in Gaithersburg, Md., Emergent signed a contract to manufacture AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in the summer of 2020 worth $261 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

When Kam Khazai refinanced the mortgage on his townhome in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Gaithersburg, Md., he thought he had scored the deal of a lifetime with a 2.9% rate on a 25-year mortgage.

From MarketWatch Jan. 7, 2026

There were reports of three collapsed structures in Gaithersburg with people trapped inside, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Pete Piringer said.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2024

A storm swept through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening amid tornado warnings, damaging a few homes in Gaithersburg, Md., and injuring a handful of people, officials said.

From New York Times Jun. 5, 2024

She’ll race across the Civil War battlefields of Monocacy and Germantown, running through Gaithersburg and Rockville and Bethesda, Maryland.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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