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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of east-central Poland south of Warsaw. Founded in the 14th century, it passed to Austria in 1795 and to Russia in 1815, reverting to Poland after World War I.

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Examples

  • Since 1976, after further workers 'riots in Radom and Ursus, there was a new development -- that of opposition and freedom movements.

    The Polish Government in Exile and Poland After Martial Law 1983

  • There are a lot from a town called Radom, for example, and also from Lublin, near the border with Ukraine.

    Poland: Immigration to UK is back for good life despite economic crisis 2011

  • Anna Jarecka/Reuters An elderly woman looked at destruction caused by strong winds in the village of Kolonia-Sady near the city of Radom, Poland.

    Emerging Europe: Week in Photos 2011

  • With so many assault rifles stockpiled, and other manufacturers competing—Arsenal in Bulgaria, Radom in Poland, Romtechnica in Romania, Norinco in China, F.E.G. in Hungary now closed, Zastava in Serbia, and others—Izhmash and Izhmech, the paired companies in Izhevsk responsible for Kalashnikov production, struggled to make sales.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Born in Chuguyev, Russia, Sigrid's first years were spent in Radom, Poland, where her father, an officer in the Imperial army, was stationed.

    Sigrid Schauman Matterhorn 2009

  • Born in Chuguyev, Russia, Sigrid's first years were spent in Radom, Poland, where her father, an officer in the Imperial army, was stationed.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Matterhorn 2009

  • To Puszka from Radom: Even boredom should be described with gusto.

    wislawa szymborska | how to (and how not to) write poetry « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

  • In Radom, he said, most of the seven thousand Jews who lived in the ghetto were destitute and starving.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • It was reacting to a report in a London newspaper that a campaigner in Radom in central Poland has called on the city council to rename the street after Walus.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • A proposal to rename a street in the Polish city of Radom after

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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