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Summary
Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, holds up her trophy after winning the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee in the Independence Concourse of the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C., 28 May, 2009.

The winning word was "Laodicean," which Shivashankar spelled correctly in the sixteenth round.

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