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Kalamazoo

American  
[kal-uh-muh-zoo] / ˌkæl ə məˈzu /

noun

  1. a city in SW Michigan.


Kalamazoo British  
/ ˌkæləməˈzuː /

noun

  1. a city in SW Michigan, midway between Detroit and Chicago: aircraft, missile parts. Pop: 75 312 (2003 est)

"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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This particular swing had taken me from Detroit to Kalamazoo and eventually on to Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Dylan’s been to Kalamazoo six times since 1978 and was last at the 3,500 capacity Miller Theater on the Western Michigan University Campus in 2010.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025

Taylor Koopman, of the Kalamazoo County Administrator's office, told MLive.com that 50 people were trapped in the partially destroyed FedEx facility.

From BBC • May 7, 2024

The Asian Tigers and China succeeded by combining vast pools of cheap labor with access to international know-how and financing, and buyers that reached from Kalamazoo to Kuala Lumpur.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Kalamazoo was certainly the farthest I’d been that I could remember, anyway.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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