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Recent Examples of borough
For a few years, the fireworks stayed on the Hudson River, until returning to the East River in 2014 after citizens of the boroughs pressured the city and Macy’s to return the fireworks show to the East River.
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David Moin, Footwear News, 4 June 2025
These works, alongside 18,000 plants grown for the exhibition, will join the more than one million plants typically on display at the botanical garden in the Bronx, New York City’s greenest borough.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2025
The all-day, all-slay event begins by uniting the borough’s colorful blend of cultures, identities and communities in a gag-worthy march along 37th Avenue.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Ozy founder Carlos Watson File: Carlos Watson, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ozy Media Inc., arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.
—Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 May 2025
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David Moin, Footwear News, 4 June 2025
These works, alongside 18,000 plants grown for the exhibition, will join the more than one million plants typically on display at the botanical garden in the Bronx, New York City’s greenest borough.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2025
The all-day, all-slay event begins by uniting the borough’s colorful blend of cultures, identities and communities in a gag-worthy march along 37th Avenue.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Ozy founder Carlos Watson File: Carlos Watson, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ozy Media Inc., arrives at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.
—Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
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The scale and speed of the federal response have revived comparisons to Trump’s 2020 handling of unrest, when over 300 federal cases were brought against demonstrators in cities such as Portland and Minneapolis, according to DOJ records.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
14 June 2025
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Footage has since emerged of large plumes of smoke rising from the heart of Israel's major city of Tel Aviv.—
Tom O'Connor
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 June 2025
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Location Located on the northwestern coast of Guanacaste, Punta Cacique is a secluded cliffside community offering easy access to two neighboring beach towns: Playa Hermosa and Playa del Coco.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
7 June 2025
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The Cubs rolled into town having won four out of five.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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In California, regulators at individual municipalities closely control where and how companies can operate autonomous vehicles.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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His office didn’t have detailed value statistics for condos in the county’s 34 municipalities.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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Unlike the metropolises mentioned above, Hartford has a median home sale price that’s actually lower than the national average—$214,546 compared to $281,900.—
Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
28 May 2025
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Her characters travel on the public transport and engage firsthand with the unglamorous but still relevant realities of a vast metropolis.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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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
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Today, though, the burg is booming with shops, restaurants and entertainment, and now this city on the make has an airport, and some big-name visitors, to complement its reputation as a prime destination.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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