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Shiloh

American  
[shahy-loh] / ˈʃaɪ loʊ /

noun

  1. a national park in SW Tennessee: Civil War battle 1862.

  2. an ancient town in central Palestine, west of the Jordan River.


Shiloh British  
/ ˈʃaɪləʊ /

noun

  1. a town in central ancient Palestine, in Canaan on the E slope of Mount Ephraim: keeping place of the tabernacle and the ark; destroyed by the Philistines

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In Colorado Springs, Woodmen Valley Chapel, a roughly 10,000-member church, donated more than an acre to the nonprofit Greccio Housing, which built Sunrise at Shiloh Mesa, with 50 apartments for seniors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Shiloh rejected suggestions she was spreading harmful misinformation, describing herself as a human rights advocate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Cleveland added a new weapon on Friday — baseball-player-turned-receiver Shiloh Wickliffe, who used to play football as a freshman at Sierra Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The team reports that post-domestication wolf ancestry occurs across a broad range of breeds, from the large Shiloh shepherd to the tiny chihuahua.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025

What I didn’t expect was that at three-thirty, before Dad come home, here’s Doc Murphy’s car chugging up the lane, and he’s got Shiloh in the backseat.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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