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Inspired by her magical storytelling and the world around him, Julián dreams of becoming a mermaid – sparking a dazzling journey from the borough’s sunlit streets to the mystical depths of the sea.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Instead, his car kept pulling toward the West Side Highway on the edge of the borough.
—Robert Ferris,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2026
Officials investigate after an Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on March 25 in the Queens borough of New York.
—Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
Deputy Commissioner Matt Jukes of London’s Metropolitan Police Service said officers arrested two young men, aged 19 and 17, overnight in relation to the attack on the Kenton United Synagogue in the borough of Harrow.
—ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Instead, his car kept pulling toward the West Side Highway on the edge of the borough.
—Robert Ferris,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2026
Officials investigate after an Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire truck on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on March 25 in the Queens borough of New York.
—Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
Deputy Commissioner Matt Jukes of London’s Metropolitan Police Service said officers arrested two young men, aged 19 and 17, overnight in relation to the attack on the Kenton United Synagogue in the borough of Harrow.
—ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
Noun
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To close out a busy Day 2, the Steelers selected a mauling guard with a mullet, who will come to a city where that haircut never went out of style.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former President Islam Karimov, is behind bars in Uzbekistan as the trial opens in a Swiss federal criminal court in the southern city of Bellinzona.—
Jamey Keaten,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Our neighbors were Blacks and Puerto Ricans, working-class Irish and Italians, and some Jews who hadn’t yet moved on, plus the legions of us new immigrants, from Asia and Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, who’d ended up in this commuter town north of New York City.—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore.—
Robin Romm,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Democrats said one of the biggest benefits is that tax increases will likely be lessened in many cities and towns because of the additional funding that the municipalities will receive.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2026
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Arden is one of the last signs of life before a long, rural stretch of land, in which drivers depart from more populous communities and head toward more rural municipalities such as Pahokee and Belle Glade.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolises, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Viewed from certain perspectives—the perspective of history, the perspective of the roughly one quarter of the world that was once colonized by Britain—London is a metropolis built on crime.—
Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Franchises in other burgs can apparently go weeks, even months, without making headlines about matters other than wins and losses.—
Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas Morning News,
31 Mar. 2026
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But there are a few burgs in America that rise up to and above standard courtesy.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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