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Just 1,890 people live in the tiny Midwestern burg, but there must be at least that many guns to go around.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025 New faces are finding them, from Bokey locals and folks from outer-burgs like Debary and DeLand to longtime regulars from Kissimmee and Lake Nona.—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025 The North Shore Scenic Drive stretches along the shore from Canal Park in Duluth, Minnesota, through lovely burgs and placid woodlands and onto to the international border at Grand Portage.—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion for much of the past five decades, residents in this tiny burg just south of Chicago are seeing a ray of divine hope in their most famous native son, Pope Leo XIV.—Michael Loria, USA Today, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for burg
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