borough

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Recent Examples of borough The borough president’s support is also One45’s first formal vote of confidence since a previous iteration of the plan infamously fell apart in 2022. Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025 Empty shelves of eggs are seen in a supermarket in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Feb. 20, 2025. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025 New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends an event at the NYPD's 40th precinct, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in the Bronx borough of New York. Anthony Izaguirre, arkansasonline.com, 21 Feb. 2025 In the borough of New York—away from the rigidity of the traditional school—is a micro-school that is reconceptualizing the education model. Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for borough
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Noun
  • To a resident of the more anonymous and corporate post-pandemic New York, the East Village of the eighties could seem as small and intertwined as a walled city.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • One such destination is Copenhagen, a Scandinavian city renowned for its art and architecture.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Soon, Rick can’t take it anymore and heads into town to find marijuana (cannabis is currently legal in Thailand), with Chelsea in tow.
    Dan Heching, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The footage was captured in Vang Vieng, a town in the northwest region of Laos.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • According to the state’s distressed municipalities map, several rural towns in Connecticut with populations of less than 20,000 people are listed as being environmental justice communities.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Among their concerns, the site will host a compressed natural gas fueling facility for at least 30 trash trucks, and FCC Environmental has made no secret of its interest in expanding operations to other municipalities, meaning more trucks could follow.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many of the selections underscore the social stresses and inequalities of the growing metropolis, the scars left by the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, and the human costs of Argentina’s recurrent economic crises.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • That is what they are being punished for—an effort to free themselves from the control of a former metropolis.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Most big burgs saw sizable year-over-year jumps in traffic delays last year, with five of them enduring double-digit increases.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Then, filled with admiration for this person who has turned a simple space into a something transcendental, the patron hires Tóth to oversee construction on a community center in the modest burg of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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