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Berks

British  
/ bɑːks /

abbreviation

  1. Berkshire

"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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I remember it clearly because I used this as an example in the principles of management class I taught that semester at Penn State University Berks.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

It was nearly half a century later, in August, when a Pennsylvania police detective tracked down Grubb's fingerprints, the Berks County Coroner’s Office said.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2024

ICE ended contracts with two little-used facilities named in both memos: the Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania and Yuba County Jail in California.

From Reuters Sep. 27, 2023

Native to China, this striking, black-and-red planthopper showed up in the U.S. for the first time in 2014, perhaps stowed away on an international shipment of decorative stone bound for Berks County in eastern Pennsylvania.

From National Geographic Aug. 31, 2023

Lysons' Magna Britannia, an Account of the Counties of Beds, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, and Devon, many plates, 6 vols, 4to. hf. bd. neat. 3l. 13s. 6d. 1806-22.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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