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Mackay

American  
[muh-kahy] / məˈkaɪ /

noun

  1. a seaport in E Australia.


Mackay British  
/ məˈkaɪ /

noun

  1. a port in E Australia, in Queensland: artificial harbour. Pop: 57 649 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lam passed away at Mackay Memorial Hospital late in Taipei on Thursday after suffering from lung cancer, regional media said.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

The normally flint-faced STV reporter Colin Mackay caught the mood when he summed up another exhausting day of revelations on the nightly news broadcast.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Shrewdly, Mackay wrote, the stock operator in that case pocketed the cash and fled the country the next day.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

"I've seen what's happened in Grangemouth, my hometown," Gillian Mackay of the Greens says.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

I wrote a letter to Captain Mackay, to which I received no reply.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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