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Waltham

American  
[wawl-thuhm, -tham] / ˈwɔl θəm, -θæm /

noun

  1. a city in E Massachusetts.


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AbbVie on Monday said it will pay $135.11 a share in cash, a 49% premium to Thursday’s closing price of $90.38 for the Waltham, Mass., clinical-stage biotechnology company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

It means the party has won control of three councils in the capital, along with Waltham Forest and Hackney in north-east London.

From BBC May 9, 2026

They took control of Norwich, Hastings and the London borough of Waltham Forest, as well as winning the mayoral contests in Hackney and Lewisham.

From BBC May 8, 2026

Waltham, Mass., life-sciences giant Thermo Fisher posted 2025 revenue of nearly $44.6 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

In fact, so few men from one of the main towns he rode through — Waltham — fought the following day that some subsequent historians concluded that it must have been a strongly pro-British community.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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