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Bethlehem
[ beth-li-hem, -lee-uhm ]
noun
- a town in NW Jordan, near Jerusalem; occupied by Israel since 1967: birthplace of Jesus and David.
- a city in E Pennsylvania.
Bethlehem
/ ˈbɛθlɪˌhɛm; -lɪəm /
noun
- a town in the West Bank, near Jerusalem: birthplace of Jesus and early home of King David
Example Sentences
Best known for chronicling the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s with essays like “Slouching Towards Bethlehem†and “The White Album,†Didion spent her life writing about her astute observations.
President Joe Biden slouched off to Bethlehem in his best William Butler Yeats fashion Wednesday night, speaking to the American people for the last time as president.
The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has good reason to consider itself the capital of Christmas but this year it does not feel like it.
The attacker fled the scene but later turned himself in to Israeli security forces following searches in the nearby Bethlehem area, the military added.
"From a colonial perspective, you want to project yourself," said Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist who teaches at Bethlehem University and founded the Palestine Museum of Natural History.
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