Dunmore
Americannoun
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John Murray, 4th Earl of, 1732–1809, Scottish colonial governor in America.
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a borough in NE Pennsylvania, near Scranton.
Example Sentences
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“No, Dunmore was calculating,” says London-based historian Olivette Otele.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The Irish Coast Guard said the missing man is believed to have gone overboard from a UK registered yacht 16 nautical miles south of Dunmore East in the Irish Sea.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025
In the book version of the project, released in 2021, she expanded the section about Dunmore into a full section of the opening chapter, complete with hundreds of footnotes.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023
What initially seemed like the capricious whim of an elderly woman leads to intermingling revelations about Sinda, Cash, Dunmore and the often overlooked histories of Black and Indigenous Canadians.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023
We have for some time heard tales of Lord Dunmore; that he hath fled his palace; that he sitteth enthroned upon a ship-of-war, the ground itself having grown too hot for him to walk upon.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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