Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of south-central Poland west-northwest of Katowice. Chartered in 1276, it was ceded by Austria to Prussia in 1742 and assigned to Poland by the Potsdam Conference in 1945.
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- proper noun A city in
Poland .
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Examples
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However, on Monday, in the manicured grounds of the radio station on the edge of the industrial city of Gliwice, which is now within Poland's borders, there will be a low-key commemoration and, for the first time, German and Polish historians will gather to discuss what took place.
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Shine brought Marion from Gliwice and they were all married together on February 17, 1946, after which they all made their way over to San Francisco.
Camp Survivors 2010
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Past Career: Started at Toyota as a senior manager, moved to GM in 1995 and has held various roles across geographies like director of manufacturing in Gliwice, Poland.
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She had lived in the same apartment building as Dziekanski in his home town of Gliwice, and had known him socially for more than twenty years.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The 1933 Reichstag conflagration, the Gliwice Radio Tower invasion, the Pearl Harbor attack, and, yes, even the Tonkin Gulf Incident were ALL orchestrated events that served to galvanize an unsuspecting populace into supporting unpopular wars.
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They then moved to Gliwice, hiding in the home of Shine's future wife Marion Shlesinger, whom he met while working for the camp.
Camp Survivors 2010
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A spokesman for regional firefighters said the accident occurred near the city of Gliwice on a stretch of the A4 highway that runs from Katowice west to Zgorzelec, on the border with Germany.
World Watch 2011
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Even so Poland's Gliwice Opel plant may have benefited from the involuntary generosity of taxpayers in Germany, where the scam of subsidizing new car purchases was first dreamt up.
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Even so Poland's Gliwice Opel plant may have benefited from the involuntary generosity of taxpayers in Germany, where the scam of subsidizing new car purchases was first dreamt up.
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Even so Poland's Gliwice Opel plant may have benefited from the involuntary generosity of taxpayers in Germany, where the scam of subsidizing new car purchases was first dreamt up.
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