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Taunton

American  
[tawn-tn, tahn-] / ˈtɔn tn, ˈtɑn- /

noun

  1. a city in SE Massachusetts.

  2. former name of Taunton Deane.


Taunton British  
/ ˈtɔːntən /

noun

  1. a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Somerset: scene of Judge Jeffreys' "Bloody Assize" (1685) after the Battle of Sedgemoor. Pop: 58 241 (2001)

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It will examine the events leading up to the deaths of Ian, and University of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber, from Taunton in Somerset, and Grace O'Malley Kumar, from London.

From BBC

Tamzin Hall, from Wellington, was arrested after a disturbance at the children's home where she lived in Taunton in November 2024.

From BBC

A pre-inquest hearing at Taunton Coroners' Court heard earlier that Tamzin, who had autism, had tried to escape from moving vehicles four times in the year before she died.

From BBC

Then, a perpetrator arrived on Dec. 12 to collect the lobster shipment at a Taunton, Mass., cold-storage center, run by a third party, where a Rexing customer was storing the lobster.

From The Wall Street Journal

Costco and the Taunton Police Department didn’t respond to a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal