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Guilford

American  
[gil-ferd] / ˈgɪl fərd /

noun

  1. a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.


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Ross is jailed at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and his bond is set for $5,000, according to the Miami-Dade County inmate database.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

This week, the Guilford County board rejected pleas from students at North Carolina A&T, the country’s largest historically Black university, for a site near the center of campus.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Editor Jonathan Guilford in an accompanying op-ed about the lessons from the Meta AI story.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025

Guilford County chairman Chris Meadows, a Republican, said he’s known Robinson, who's from the area, for years.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024

Guilford, Milford, and Stamford sprang up in the neighborhood, and each adopted a similar form of government.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

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