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Youngstown

American  
[yuhngz-toun] / ˈyʌŋzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a city in NE Ohio.


Youngstown British  
/ ˈjʌŋzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a city in NE Ohio: a major centre of steel production: university (1908). Pop: 79 271 (2003 est)

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When Nancy moved a few years later from Youngstown, Ohio, where they met, the two began writing letters almost daily in study hall and at home, draped across their beds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

The Spartans rank 118th in the nation — and worst in the Big Ten — in pass defense, and that’s after playing teams like Youngstown State and Western Michigan.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

“It is absurd to see a dictator,” Chief Justice Vinson wrote in his dissent in Youngstown Steel, “in a representative product of the sturdy democratic traditions of the Mississippi Valley.”

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

I’ve been to Cleveland a few times, but when I was invited to speak at Youngstown State University for Women’s History Month, I knew I had to linger in the area.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025

By the end of the month, half the steel industry, including almost all the mills in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, West Virginia; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio, had shut down.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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