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Scran⋅ton

[skran-tn]
–noun
1. William Warren, born 1917, U.S. politician.
2. a city in NE Pennsylvania. 88,117.
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Scran·ton   (skrān'tən)   
A city of northeast Pennsylvania northeast of Wilkes-Barre. Settled in the late 1700s, it is a commercial and industrial center in an anthracite coal region. Population: 72,900.
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Scranton

city, seat (1878) of Lackawanna county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., in the Lackawanna River valley, on the western fringes of the Pocono Mountains; it is the centre of an urbanized industrial complex that includes Carbondale and Wilkes-Barre.

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