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Painesville

American  
[peynz-vil] / ˈpeɪnz vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.


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Dale Chorman grew up in Painesville, Ohio, but hitchhiked to Alaska in the 1980s, his son said in an email to the AP.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024

James Cross Giblin was born on July 8, 1933, in Cleveland and reared in Painesville, Ohio.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2016

Lake County sheriff’s deputies questioned 35-year-old Juan Emmanuel Razo on July 7 after finding him alone in a car in Painesville, about 30 miles east of Cleveland.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2015

Martin has spent much of her career in Northern Ohio, working in high schools in Lorain, a small industrial city, and then leading a high school in Painesville, near Cleveland, for seven years.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2015

He had returned to Painesville, and closed up the few matters of his brother Henry; had written to Ranney, at Jefferson, and already had resumed his books with a saddened and sobered determination.

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.

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