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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

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

From Washington Post Jan. 24, 2023

“The Depression was the seminal time of their lives — the time that was about family and survival and making it through,” said Curry, now a 59-year-old Presbyterian pastor in Owensboro, Kentucky.

From Seattle Times Sep. 13, 2022

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

It was early morning when the scream of the Gray Eagle roused the usual crowd of loafers from their sleep and inanition at Owensboro'.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

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