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Melrose

American  
[mel-rohz] / ˈmɛlˌroʊz /

noun

  1. a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

  2. a village in SE Scotland, on the Tweed River: ruins of a famous abbey.


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Originally from Gattonside, outside Melrose, education took Murray in his teenage years towards London where he remained throughout most of his adult life.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Melrose said it is well placed to benefit from the generational shift in defense spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Paramount’s assets, including MTV, Nickelodeon and the Melrose Avenue movie studio, have been fading.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Melrose said it would buy back 175 million pounds of shares by end of March 2027, and hiked its dividend by 20% to 7.2 pence a share.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

There, in those ancient Vermont forests, I saw and heard other solitary vireos, but none that treated me as my Melrose pair had done.

From A Rambler's lease by Torrey, Bradford