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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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Schwartz was working as a welder in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, before his arrest in February 2021, but he considers his home to be in Owensboro, Kentucky, according to his attorneys.

From Washington Times ● May 5, 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

They theorized that since the UFO had had to pass north of Godman to get from Maysville to Owensboro it might come back.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

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