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
Undeterred, Mr. Morash persuaded three dozen Watertown families to pitch in to purchase it and bring it home.
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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