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Kailua

American  
[kahy-loo-ah, -loo-uh] / kaɪˈlu ɑ, -ˈlu ə /

noun

  1. a city on SE Oahu, in Hawaii.


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Ocean Kim took top honors in the 100-yard dash after officials agreed Kim, of Kailua, Hawaii, hit the finish wire just ahead of the pack.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Survivors include her partner of 35 years, Liz Rizzo of Kailua, Hawaii.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2021

It was a weekday in August when my husband and I went to Kalama Beach Park in Kailua Bay and found almost no one there except for a few bodyboarders.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2020

Kailua resident John Farmer said the fire spread to his sister’s nearby house, which burned down.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2020

His son, Kuikauai, a school-master at Kailua, one of the true historico-sacerdotal race, has given us a genealogy of his ancestors which ascends without break to Paao.

From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles