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Sedalia

American  
[si-day-lee-uh, -dayl-yuh] / sɪˈdeɪ li ə, -ˈdeɪl jə /

noun

  1. a city in central Missouri.


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The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

In addition to the Nebraska and Minnesota plants, investigators also seized records from a Tyson Foods plant in Sedalia, Missouri, but they didn’t identify any workers from there as minors in the court documents.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

She has helped over 50 people navigate online registrations and even drives them herself hours away to Hannibal, Rolla, Potosi, Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff and Sedalia, she said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2021

Ms. Fizer had attended the Sedalia Police Department’s citizen’s academy in 2016 but quickly decided she did not want to become a cop.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020

Had he lived, Sedalia would not have tried in vain to swipe the capital from Jefferson City.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis

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