Lake Ontario
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Smallest and lowest in elevation of the Great Lakes.
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Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes located on the border between Canada and the United States.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
On the southern shore of Lake Ontario, a short drive from Niagara Falls, Google has been demonstrating how it can use Nvidia’s own playbook to win customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Rochester is a small city of 207,000 on Lake Ontario in northern New York, surrounded by rural areas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
He noted cases of Baloch activists who mysteriously died while in exile, including activist Karima Baloch who was found dead in December 2020 near Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
The weather lady says it’s a lake-effect storm—the wind from Canada sucks up water from Lake Ontario, runs it through the freeze machine, and dumps it on Syracuse.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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