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Groton

American  
[grot-n] / ˈgrɒt n /

noun

  1. a city in SE Connecticut.


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Just down the street from the shipyard, Groton resident Autumn Gardiner rents an apartment that she’d love to pass off to a new Electric Boat employee after she buys a home.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

Other raw milk drinkers, such as Peg Coleman, a medical microbiologist who runs Coleman Scientific Consulting, a Groton, N.Y.-based food safety consulting company, claimed the government’s warnings have no basis in reality.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2024

As a teenager at the Groton School in Massachusetts, he made adjustments to cope with dyslexia.

From New York Times Jun. 26, 2023

Feliciano said she has seen numerous accidents in Groton but nothing like the incident Friday.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2023

The top of her Groton T-shirt was visible.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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