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Knoxville

American  
[noks-vil] / ˈnɒks vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in E Tennessee, on the Tennessee River.


Knoxville British  
/ ˈnɒksvɪl /

noun

  1. an industrial city in E Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: state capital (1796–1812; 1817–19). Pop: 173 278 (2003 est)

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At the University of Tennessee’s flagship campus in Knoxville, undergraduate computer-science enrollment rose for nine straight years, to 672 students in 2024 from 291 students in 2015, according to data published by the public university.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, undergraduate computer-science enrollment rose for nine straight years, to 672 students in 2024 from 291 students in 2015, according to data published by the university.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Pike bounced from one school to another before joining Knoxville Job Corps aged 18 - what was meant to be a new start.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

First they moved in with McCarthy’s parents—an untenable situation—until he found an abandoned farmhouse on Route 7 in Sevier County, near Walden’s Creek, about half an hour east of Knoxville.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

In June 1942 Vannevar Bush approved the purchase of a rural fifty-two-thousand-acre parcel about twenty-five miles from Knoxville, Tennessee.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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