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Owensboro

American  
[oh-uhnz-bur-oh, -buhr-oh] / ˈoʊ ənzˌbɜr oʊ, -ˌbʌr oʊ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.


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A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, Vanover has 29 years of major league umpiring experience.

From Washington Times • Apr. 12, 2023

When Marla Carter visits her mother-in-law at a nursing home in Owensboro, Kentucky, the scene feels more 19th-century poorhouse than modern-day America.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Gary Hagan Oelze was born in Owensboro, Ky., on Aug. 24, 1942.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

Embassy in Kabul, lived for four months with his wife and seven children in an 1850s-era log cabin in the countryside in Owensboro, Ky. But the family is now settled in a three-bedroom house.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Green River Towhead, Monday, June 4th.—We were shopping in Owensboro, this morning, soon after seven o'clock.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold