Pittsburgh

//ˈpɪtsbɝɡ// name

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  1. 1
    A city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

    "Because he was coincidentally situated in Pittsburgh, he had examined the brains of two former Pittsburgh Steelers players who were discovered to have had postconcussive brain dysfunction: Mike Webster, who became homeless and cognitively impaired before dying of heart failure in 2002; and Terry Long, who committed suicide in 2005."

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"I wish Donald Trump were dead instead of the eight people killed today in Pittsburgh."

Etymology

From Pitt + -s- + -burgh (“fortified place”), named after William Pitt the Elder.

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