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Kettering

American  
[ket-er-ing] / ˈkɛt ər ɪŋ /

noun

  1. Charles Franklin, 1876–1958, U.S. engineer and inventor.

  2. a city in SW Ohio.


Kettering British  
/ ˈkɛtərɪŋ /

noun

  1. a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: footwear industry. Pop: 51 063 (2001)

"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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That was when the 30-year-old from Kettering adopted the mantra of "shy girls don't get sweets" and she ended up three shots behind.

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

But my family’s health insurance, supplied by their labor union, wouldn’t cover care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where I had 33 radiation treatments.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

It began as just a normal Saturday at Aylestone St James, Lewis's childhood rugby club, half an hour from where they lived with their two children near Kettering - and where he still played.

From BBC May 20, 2026

The president named Dr. Nicole Saphier, the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Monmouth and a Fox News contributor, as his new nominee.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Mr. Griffiths, of Buckby, delivered the funeral oration; Mr. B. Hobson, of Welford, and Mr. T. Toller, of Kettering, conducted the devotional parts of the service.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas

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