barrios

noun

plural of barrio
as in ghettos

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  1. districts
  2. enclaves
  3. sections
  4. neighborhoods
  5. hoods
  6. quarters
Noun
  • Sarah Dempster, an architect for Populous, said other baseball stadium projects in Atlanta, Chicago and Denver have successfully created walkable mixed-use districts around stadiums that are unique to their cities.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026
  • That plan includes harnessing data collected by the Independent Center, which has been using AI to identify districts where independents have the best chance of succeeding.
    — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 27 July 2026
Definition of districts
Noun
  • Coastal and upscale enclaves such as Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Laguna Beach and Berkeley top the ‘least affordable’ list, where buyers often need more than 14 years of income.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • For travelers, the very best islands to visit are idyllic enclaves where time slows and worries disappear, all stressors abandoned on the mainland.
    — Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
Definition of enclaves
Noun
  • Experience gained from managing heavy steel distortion during the welding of KSTAR’s vacuum boundaries informed the tooling and quality control methods later used to fabricate the thicker, more complex ITER sections.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
  • People are flooding their comment sections from afar with questions, condolences and claims of AI manipulation.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 22 July 2026
Definition of sections
Noun
  • Cherry residents say developers and city leaders must do a better job protecting neighborhoods from preventable disturbances during big projects.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
  • Olathe is closer to adding a new duplex housing development near the Cedar Creek and Cedar Glenn residential neighborhoods in northwest Olathe.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Definition of neighborhoods
Noun
  • In that incident, teens dressed head-to-toe in black — some wearing hoods and masks — were seen throwing punches and hurling chairs as innocent bystanders sought safety.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026
  • Water rose over the hoods of vehicles parked near the river at the Comfort RV Resort.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026
Definition of hoods
Noun
  • The trope, fair or not, has often overshadowed the fact that science fiction and horror are absolutely perfect bedfellows, with outer space's total isolation, tiny quarters, and oppressive vastness perfectly suited for the horror genre.
    — Matthew Razak, Space.com, 26 July 2026
  • For the second quarter, Wall Street expects Boeing to report a cash burn of $179 million, before turning positive in the third and fourth quarters.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 26 July 2026
Definition of quarters
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