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Wooster

American  
[woos-ter] / ˈwʊs tər /

noun

  1. David, 1711–77, American Revolutionary War general.

  2. a city in N Ohio.


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At Wooster, James ran the campus pub and joined a club for budding investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

In the 1980s, he came to the U.S. to attend the College of Wooster, a small liberal-arts school in northern Ohio.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

When we see "polar bears on melting glaciers, we have an empathetic response," said Susan Clayton, a conservation psychologist at the College of Wooster.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025

In his Jeeves stories, Bertie Wooster is briefly employed by a magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which was housed "in one of those rummy streets in the Covent Garden neighbourhood".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

General Wooster ran his hand across his eyes.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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