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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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His contributions were also recognized with the 2026 Chairman's Prize from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

The breakthrough finally came through the work of Yanan Ma, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at MSK's Sloan Kettering Institute.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

At the Kettering store, a couple of people laughed as they recounted taking their purchases through airport security only to be stopped for questioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

Services are also conducted on Sabbath evenings at Great Oakley, five miles from Kettering; occasionally at Orlingbury, five miles in another direction; also at Thorpe and Loddington.

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 Thomas Coleman

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