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Recent Examples of borough
Heathrow is located in the west London suburban borough of Hounslow, roughly 18 miles from Central London.
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Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Then everything came to an unceremonious stop last September, after just one year, even as Mamdani sought to expand it to three lines per borough.
—Ben Brachfeld, Curbed, 2 July 2025
In the nineteen-fifties, Joe Papp, the founder of the Public Theatre, would travel the five boroughs with a flatbed trailer hitched to a garbage truck, offering free Shakespeare to all New Yorkers.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
The five-part series will offer a kind of historical and musical tour of the five boroughs as LL Cool J visits the neighborhoods and meets with the MCs and producers who were instrumental to hip-hop’s rise.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
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Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Then everything came to an unceremonious stop last September, after just one year, even as Mamdani sought to expand it to three lines per borough.
—Ben Brachfeld, Curbed, 2 July 2025
In the nineteen-fifties, Joe Papp, the founder of the Public Theatre, would travel the five boroughs with a flatbed trailer hitched to a garbage truck, offering free Shakespeare to all New Yorkers.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
The five-part series will offer a kind of historical and musical tour of the five boroughs as LL Cool J visits the neighborhoods and meets with the MCs and producers who were instrumental to hip-hop’s rise.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
Noun
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Parents are stepping up to push schools and cities to adapt to increasing temperatures.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Sidewalks are to cities as scenic vistas with unbroken landscapes are to country living.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
8 July 2025
Noun
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In a world where $25 cocktails are becoming the norm, a $10 Patrón frozen margarita that’s consistent, colorful, and crowd-pleasing might just be the best deal in town.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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The factories promised thousands of new jobs, transforming the manufacturing base in Cartersville, once a cotton mill town before an Anheuser-Busch brewery arrived in the 1990s and a tire plant in 2006.—
Glen Luke Flanagan,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
Noun
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Another article from that year documented how Cudahy Park was a popular haunt for 18th Streeters, who poured in from various municipalities to congregate, initiate recruits, and hold meetings.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2025
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The Evanston Police Department uses license plate reading technology from Flock Safety, which also manages license plate readers for police departments in Mount Prospect and many other Illinois municipalities.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
Noun
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Today, Elba is more known for whimsical seaside towns dotted with cafés, shops and visitors from all over Italy and abroad looking for a respite in various scenic harbors before returning to the buzzing metropolis of Florence.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Noun
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On top of a reputation for corruption, the burg was also scarred by redlining and persistent racial tensions.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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However, don’t necessarily count out those living on the West Coast as being necessarily more-mellow in this regard, with California placing no fewer than three major cities among the 10 burgs having the most crash-prone motorists.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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