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McKeesport

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[muh-keez-pawrt, -pohrt] / məˈkizˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

  1. a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.


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Still, the 20-year-old McKeesport, Pa., resident knows it could be much worse.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

In the 35th District, Matt Gergely, a Democrat who is the chief revenue officer of McKeesport, Pa., is facing Don Nevills, a Republican small-business man and Navy veteran.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Davis, a resident of McKeesport, has been a state representative since 2018 and is a former executive assistant to Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, a prominent elected Democrat.

From Washington Times • May 18, 2022

Arthur Newton Goldberg was born Sept. 5, 1917, in Greensburg, Pa., and grew up in McKeesport, Pa., where his father was a factory worker and furniture salesman.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022

Pittsburg, together with Homestead, Carnegie, McKeesport, Duquesne, and Braddock, is the chief steel-making centre of the Ohio River Valley.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

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