Ocala

American  

[oh-kal-uh] / oʊˈkæl ə /

noun

1. a city in central Florida.

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Example Sentences

This distinction between the group of children in the Ocala neighborhood and their 58-year-old neighbor, Lorincz, is an important one in Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary, which was a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival before Netflix acquired the film for distribution.

From Salon

Gandbhir’s decision to tell this story through bodycam footage and security video, as opposed to on-camera interviews with the Owens family or any friends and neighbors from their Ocala community, is a smart one.

From Salon

Early in the Netflix true crime documentary, “The Perfect Neighbor,” an ongoing dispute between Susan Lorincz and her neighbors in an Ocala, Florida residential block is succinctly summarized by an unlikely participant: eight-year-old Afrika Owens.

From Salon

The tragedy, which rocked the otherwise peaceful, tight-knit community of Ocala, Fla., followed years of Lorincz making habitual calls to the police to report neighborhood kids, including Owens’, for playing in a vacant lot next to her home.

From Los Angeles Times

This is Ocala, Fla., the heart of where Stand Your Ground was born.

From Los Angeles Times