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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

Early reports indicated that a tornado could have touched down in a residential area of Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, about 20 miles northwest of the nation's capital.

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