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Weirton

American  
[weer-tn] / ˈwɪər tn /

noun

  1. a city in N West Virginia, on the Ohio River.


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In Weirton, West Virginia, a steel town fallen on hard times, a battery manufacturer came to establish a new industrial basis for the community.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

Massachusetts-based Form Energy will build the plant on a 55-acre site once occupied by Weirton Steel in the Northern Panhandle.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

In another case, the complaint alleges that the diocese hired a lay teacher to work at a high school in Weirton, W. Va., in 2011 but didn’t do a background check on him.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2019

He taught in nearby Weirton, W.Va., before becoming principal at a Pittsburgh primary school in 2016, which coincided with the beginnings of strange behaviors that they later discovered were related to his brain cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2018

On Monday, Mader's lawyers announced he had reached a settlement with the city of Weirton in the wrongful-termination lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2018

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