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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An independent city of southwest-central Virginia east-northeast of Roanoke in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in central Virginia
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Examples
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In Lynchburg he first found his true calling and there, too, he met with his first failure, the demise of the _Lynchburg Express_, of which he was part owner, and which went to the wall by reason of the well-known weakness of genius in regard to business matters.
Literary Hearthstones of Dixie La Salle Corbell Pickett 1889
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LYNCHBURG HILLCATS (27-38) vs. KINSTON INDIANS (34-31) June 17th, 2010 -- 6: 05 PM @ Lynchburg
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None the less, no matter whether Lynchburg is a victim or circumstance or not – you are not going to convert Rt 29 to an interstate and your blind advocacy to do so – reveals a rather arrogant mindset especially when Lynchburg goes around telling other communities how to do business.
Waldo Jaquith - Del. Valentine’s Route 29 Bypass Bypass bill. 2009
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Actually, if you knew anything about Lynchburg, you’d know that industry hasn’t abandoned Lynchburg and the economy in Lynchburg is faring better than much of the state.
Waldo Jaquith - Del. Valentine’s Route 29 Bypass Bypass bill. 2009
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Lynchburg is becoming the city version of Forest Gump – stoopid is as stupid does … IMHO
Waldo Jaquith - Del. Valentine’s Route 29 Bypass Bypass bill. 2009
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Whether or not Charlottesville has a state-funded University has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand other than to demonstrate the arrogant attitudes in Lynchburg about other localities in Va.
Waldo Jaquith - Del. Valentine’s Route 29 Bypass Bypass bill. 2009
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She was a 1952 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now Randolph College) in Lynchburg, Va., where she majored in Latin and Greek.
Marilyn M. Johnson; teacher Post 2010
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Most players plan to spend the summer in Lynchburg to build more chemistry, meaning a Liberty team that treaded water this season could be one of the conference's more dangerous teams next year.
Liberty - Team Notes 2010
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She was a 1952 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now Randolph College) in Lynchburg, Va., where she majored in Latin and Greek.
Marilyn M. Johnson; teacher Post 2010
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Lynchburg is demonstrating how the current funding for highways has been exhausted and is now broke.
Waldo Jaquith - Del. Valentine’s Route 29 Bypass Bypass bill. 2009
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