Leavenworth
Americannoun
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a city in NE Kansas.
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a federal and military prison there.
noun
Example Sentences
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Last year, according to the Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce, 14 of the city’s 20 busiest days by foot traffic were in December—a testament to why many call this a “Christmas capital.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
But the company, which is being sued by Leavenworth, wants to bypass permitting required by the city and open the facility, as it did in California City.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025
For now Kara remains at her base in Fort Leavenworth but is prepared to leave with little notice if she has to.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
In 1955, there was an outbreak at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, when I was in the second grade.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2024
The inmates took in their grim destination: Leavenworth was a 366,000-square-foot fortress, which, as a prisoner once described, rose out of the surrounding cornfields like a “giant mausoleum adrift in a great sea of nothingness.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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