Watertown
Americannoun
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a town in E Massachusetts, on the Charles River, near Boston: U.S. arsenal.
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a city in N New York.
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a town in NW Connecticut.
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a city in SE Wisconsin.
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a city in E South Dakota.
Example Sentences
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Watertown Public Schools said Merkin’s and others’ feedback—as well as a realization that YouTube’s filters “increasingly proved ineffective”—led to a districtwide block by January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Viggo Mortensen was always drawn to the old piano in his grandparents’ house in Watertown, N.Y.,
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
In Watertown, Mass., Charlie Morash spent 20 years searching for the city’s missing cane, which may have been the first to vanish, after the death of its first recipient in 1910.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
The action opened in Watertown, which was painted upon old linens; General Washington stomped out from the wings, his jacket ill-fitting and crude.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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