birthplace

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Over time, these innovators gave the Catskills the grandiose—if ultimately unprovable—distinction of being the birthplace of American dry fly fishing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026

Not only is it a lower-cost part of the country compared to the birthplace of semiconductors in Silicon Valley, but engineers are less likely to be poached from far away, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 3, 2026

This is the birthplace of the city, and I know that this was a land of the natives, the Tongva.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

Sandford—to firmly establish that birthplace, rather than bloodline or race, dictated U.S. citizenship.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

Yet as I looked at the photos of Mo helping out at the refugee camps, rebuilding bombed-out villages, and replanting farms, I couldn't help but think of how that birthplace had suffered over the centuries.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda