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Mattoon

American  
[muh-toon] / məˈtun /

noun

  1. a city in E Illinois.


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Now, in 2025, as I watched the movie on my iPad, some of the names of the characters—Gen. James Mattoon Scott, Col.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 13, 2025

—Chase Mattoon, El Segundo: Made field goals from 25, 40 and 28 yards in win over South Torrance.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2024

Telephone and email messages seeking comment were left for the trustee at First Mid Bank & Trust in Mattoon.

From Seattle Times Feb. 17, 2024

It said the Mattoon, Illinois-based company should be valued on its assets rather than its current cash flow.

From Reuters Jul. 12, 2023

While he was there a man named Mattoon, a good soldier, came up, and seeing Halleck, jumped over with the exclamation, "What are you doing here?"

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

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