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Goodyear

American  
[good-yeer] / ˈgʊdˌjɪər /

noun

  1. Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.


Goodyear British  
/ ˈɡʊdˌjɪə /

noun

  1. Charles. 1800–60, US inventor of vulcanized rubber

"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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Goodrich, Firestone, General Tire and Goodyear erected giant factories and mansions around town.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Net sales fell to $3.88 billion from $4.25 billion, and Goodyear plans to eliminate about 400 jobs in EMEA.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

A great many Black people worked at the Goodyear tire plant in South Los Angeles in the 1960s and ‘70s, and at other nearby industrial companies. “You had double exposure,” Hutchinson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Goodyear says the study does not say "don't ban phones in schools", but that "school phone policies alone are not enough to tackle the harms associated with phones and social media use".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

For the first day and a half after I arrived, Dad hovered over me like the Goodyear blimp over the Orange Bowl.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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