the town

noun

: the government of a town
The town plans to increase property taxes.

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Breakfast in bed or brunch out on the town? Rachel F. Seidman, Time, 10 May 2026 Emma Bailey Leary, who manages events for Bart’s Books, the town’s storied outdoor bookshop, wandered in wearing head-to-toe fuchsia. Priyanka Mattoo, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026 An Associated Press journalist at the scene saw a dead body on the highway in the town of Saadiyat. Arkansas Online, 10 May 2026 About 250 people in Killingworth — the largest group to file a complaint with a fair rent commission in recent history — will get a one-year reprieve from increases after the town’s committee rejected their landowner’s rent adjustment plan. Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for the town

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“The town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20town. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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