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Kennett

American  
[ken-it] / ˈkɛn ɪt /

noun

  1. a town in SE Missouri.


kennett British  
/ ˈkɛnɪt /

verb

  1. slang (tr) another word for jeff

"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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Garretson was counting on strong performances from the linebacker group, specifically from senior Isaiah Leilua and junior Allen Kennett.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Carolyn Kennett, from Penzance, Cornwall, is an astro-archaeologist - studying how ancient cultures interacted with the sky.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Kennett says the device works without electrical power and is engineered so vibrations are isolated so as not to interfere with fragile experiments or the structural integrity of a vessel in space.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Kennett and his team support the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which suggests that fragments of a comet detonated above Earth's surface.

From Science Daily Jan. 1, 2026

As if to prove his point, headlines flared in 2007 when a twenty-six-person scientific team led by the oceanographer James Kennett proposed that a comet three miles in diameter struck Canada eleven thousand years ago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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