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Maumee

American  
[maw-mee, maw-mee] / mɔˈmi, ˈmɔ mi /

noun

  1. a city in NW Ohio.

  2. a river in E Indiana and W Ohio, flowing NE to Lake Erie, at Toledo. 175 miles (280 km) long.


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Steven Gallagher, 50, of Maumee, Ohio, was charged in New York federal court with securities fraud, wire fraud and market manipulation.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2021

But none of these adds up to a real game plan for phosphorus reductions where it counts, in the vast watershed of the Maumee River feeding these nutrients directly into Lake Erie.

From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2019

His Inverness supporters were ecstatic—and so were Toledo bettors, who made their biggest killing since Jack Dempsey whipped Jess Willard in their heavyweight fight near Maumee Bay in 1919.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 20, 2019

After his brief stint in the Army, Fields joined her there, then rented a place of his own in Maumee, a $450-a-month one-bedroom in a complex called Oak Hill.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2017

The Miami and Erie canal, leading from Maumee river to Cincinnati, 244� m., with a branch to Port Jefferson, 14 m., with locks 90 by 15 by 4 ft., connects with Lake Erie through Toledo.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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