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Oswego

American  
[os-wee-goh] / ɒsˈwi goʊ /

noun

  1. a town in NW Oregon.

  2. a port in W New York, on Lake Ontario.


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The chief sponsor of the bill, Senate President Rob Wagner, a Democrat representing the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, also declined to answer when asked if he was aware of Oregon’s investigations into Dundon’s businesses.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

The aluminum maker Novelis said that once repairs are completed at its Oswego, N.Y., plant, operations will gradually step up over a period of months to reach regular-rate production.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The fire last month at a Novelis Inc. plant in Oswego, N.Y., destroyed a key part of the facility.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

With little excess capacity, Ford and other Novelis customers can’t easily shift orders to other rolling mills to compensate for the outage at the Oswego plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Spring returned, and Pontiac remembered the promise he had made to visit Sir William Johnson at Oswego.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis