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Olathe

American  
[oh-ley-thuh] / oʊˈleɪ θə /

noun

  1. a city in E Kansas.


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While the man was the subject of intense speculation in the days after the shooting, he was later identified as Denton Loudermill from the nearby town of Olathe, Kansas.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024

“Kansas City has needed this oomph for a while,” said a beaming Deanna Martin, 75, of Olathe, Kan., as she strolled through Kansas City with her husband, Don, this week.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

But Kobach didn’t cite Kansas law in his letters to the state school boards association, the Topeka school district and the Kansas City, Shawnee Mission and Olathe school districts in the Kansas City area.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Walmart said on Tuesday it would invest $257 million to open a beef-packing plant in Olathe, Kansas in 2025, which would create more than 600 jobs.

From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2023

The distance between Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, and Holcomb, w'hich might be called a suburb of Garden City, is approximately four hundred miles.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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