Lakewood
Americannoun
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a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
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a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
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a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie, near Cleveland.
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a town in E New Jersey.
Example Sentences
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James Mayo, a financial planner in Lakewood, Colo., builds bond ladders, which means owning individual bonds or target-maturity bond funds with maturities that span multiple years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
She remembered him as a driven Lakewood High School student who wasn’t afraid to be himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
An informant would tell them the attack was rooted in a chain-snatching at the Lakewood Mall two months earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“The spread between different lenders on the same day can often be wider than the daily move in market rates themselves,” said James Mayo, a financial planner in Lakewood, Colo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
On warm summer evenings, entire families rode the open-air trolley out to the Lakewood amusement park, dubbed the “Coney Island of the South” by promoters.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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