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Shaker Heights

American  

noun

  1. a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.


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Ms. Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent suburb of Cleveland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Yet in “Dream Town,” Shaker Heights falls short again and again.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023

It’s an important issue for the 42-year-old Chinese American author, whose parents emigrated from Hong Kong and raised her in Pittsburgh and Shaker Heights, Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

Mr. Howard graduated from high school in Shaker Heights outside Cleveland and studied English literature at Columbia University, dazzled by professors including the poet Mark Van Doren and literary critics F.W.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

They seemed like nice people, these Wrights—nice people who had been through a lot, nice people who could have been her neighbors in Shaker Heights.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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