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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Israel on the Mediterranean Sea west of Jerusalem near the site of ancient Ashdod, an important Philistine city-state that was settled as early as the Bronze Age.
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Examples
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ASHDOD -- A Lebanese freighter that tried to deliver aid to Gaza in defiance of a blockade docked in the Israeli port of Ashdod under navy escort on Thursday after being intercepted at sea
MP3Board.com 2009
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Associated Press The Eshkol power station, located in the coastal city of Ashdod, is the first in Israel to produce electricity from natural gas.
Israel Drills Big Gas Prospect Charles Levinson 2010
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Israel can try to reach an agreement about the ships being searched in Ashdod with Turkish observers present, and that they will be allowed to proceed to dock at Gaza after this search is complete.
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In a barrage Monday night, a missile crashed into a bus stop in Ashdod, 23 miles from the Gaza Strip.
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The plans, drawn up by David Metreveli, chief designer at DM AeroSafe Group based in Ashdod, Israel, have been developed into a working prototype called the Eagle vertical takeoff and landing aerial rescue platform.
Boing Boing: October 21, 2001 - October 27, 2001 Archives 2001
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Foreigners shall take possession of their land and become masters of all its wealth (v. 6): A bastard shall dwell in Ashdod; a spurious brood of strangers shall enter upon the inheritances of the natives, which they have no more right to than a bastard has to the estates of the legitimate children.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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And some think he is meant by the bastard that shall dwell in Ashdod, for his mother
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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n A school principal in Ashdod decided on his own to teach the Ethiopian children in segregated classrooms;
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The left knows its credibility is being tested: If Israel can’t defend Beersheva and Ashdod from the 1967 border with Gaza, it won’t be able to defend Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from the 1967 border with the West Bank.
Matthew Yglesias » Peres: Gaza Operation is Collective Punishment, and I Love It 2009
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Then another search in Ashdod won’t find any contraband and the aid will be transferred, in its entirety, toGaza.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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