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Milwaukie

American  
[mil-waw-kee] / mɪlˈwɔ ki /

noun

  1. a town in NW Oregon.


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The compact corner drugstore, on Southeast Milwaukie Avenue just south of Powell Boulevard, still has glass display cases and shelves filled with old medicine bottles.

From Seattle Times Jun. 6, 2024

He was on a dinner date with his soon-to-be wife at the now-closed Fernwood Inn in nearby Milwaukie and saw how customers were transfixed by the Spanish coffees being served there.

From Washington Post Feb. 23, 2023

A dozen campers and motor homes posted up outside a supermarket in Milwaukie, down the hill from the fires ravaging much of Clackamas County.

From New York Times Sep. 11, 2020

Happiness researcher Robert Biswas-Diener, the founder and managing director of the consulting firm Positive Acorn in Milwaukie, Ore., knows this treadmill effect well.

From Time Aug. 7, 2017

Returning to Milwaukie much fatigued, I entertained myself for a day or two with reading.

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret

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