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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Norway south of Bergen on an inlet of the North Sea.
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- proper noun A municipality in
Sør-Trøndelag ,Norway . It is also the third largest town in Norway afterOslo andBergen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port city in southwestern Norway; center for shipbuilding industry
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Examples
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School in Stavanger (southwestern Norway) in 1867-1891.
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Norwegian architect Tommie Wilhelmsen designed this house in Stavanger, Norway.
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"It's coincidentally across the street from the Apple shop here in Stavanger, Norway."
- Boing Boing 2005
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The letter from Mowinckel was quoted in Stavanger Aftenblad, November
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Lange was born in Stavanger, an old city on Norway's southwestern coast.
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Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs led a U.S. sweep at the ConocoPhillips Open in Stavanger, Norway.
USATODAY.com - Bailey bangs his way to Olympic athlete honor 2004
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Once in a city called Stavanger, Norway, I was asked to come and pray for a sister who was in the last stages of tuberculosis of the lungs.
Personal Experiences of S O Susag Susag, S O 1948
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Once in a city called Stavanger, Norway, I was asked to come and pray for a sister who was in the last stages of tuberculosis of the lungs.
Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag S. O. Susag 1907
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Just as crucial to the equation is drummer Audun Kleive: with the title track and "Stavanger" in particular, and to a lesser extent on "Williamsburg" and "Fly", it's the aggressiveness of his empathy with Eick which lends these compositions much of their cumulative charge.
PopMatters Brendon Griffin 2008
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The captioned donations from around the globe—including a can of love incense that "doesn't work" (Bloomington, Ind.) and an iron used to press a wedding suit (Stavanger, Norway)—are funny, poignant, biting, sweet.
Only In…Zagreb Anja Mutic 2011
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