Lackawanna

[lak-uh-won-uh]

noun

1. a city in W New York, on Lake Erie, near Buffalo.

Example Sentences

I watched Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s “Lackawanna Blues,” so I always wanted to do that.

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Scranton—famously, Joe Biden’s hometown—is a staunchly blue dot in Lackawanna County, a historically Democratic district that over the years has shifted to battleground territory.

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In 2012 Obama carried Lackawanna by 30 points, but in 2020, Biden held on by only 8.

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In the 2024 presidential election, Trump won the state, but narrowly lost Lackawanna County, where Scranton is located, to then-Vice-President Kamala Harris.

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A minivan had lost control and hit a median on the northbound interstate in Lackawanna County at about 5:30 p.m.

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