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Pleasantville

American  
[plez-uhnt-vil] / ˈplɛz əntˌvɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE New Jersey.


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Then she returned to her small wholesale factory in Pleasantville, N.Y., and started figuring out how she would fill orders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

When the war finished, the family relocated to Pleasantville, N.Y.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2023

This tornado destroyed houses in the town of Pleasantville, Iowa.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023

"It didn't make any sense," said Bridgette Murray, a retired nurse, environmental activist and community organizer from Pleasantville, on Houston's east side.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2022

The death of his devoted wife added to his sorrows, and on November 29, 1872, only a few weeks after the Presidential election, he died at Pleasantville, N. Y., of mental and nervous prostration.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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