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Greeneville

American  
[green-vil] / ˈgrin vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in E Tennessee.


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“I get a kick-start on my career,” said Smith, a sophomore at Greeneville High School in eastern Tennessee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Ballad Health set up incident command centers at Greeneville Community Hospital and Johnson City Medical Center to handle the influx of patients, according to a news release from the health system.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

But Greeneville — a small town of about 15,000 residents, where Mr. Johnson married, served as alderman and briefly as its mayor — claims him with some pride.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2020

A federal grand jury in Greeneville indicted You, 56, and Xiangchen, 61, for conspiracy to steal trade secrets, seven counts of stealing trade secrets and a single count of wire fraud.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2019

In an hour after the message was delivered Gillem's forces were hurrying on their way to Greeneville, where they arrived about daylight, and surrounded the house where Morgan was.

From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Cable, George Washington

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