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Recent Examples of burg Spink believed relocation of some of baseball’s lesser-drawing teams was possible, and there was a vast nation of growing burgs with their arms (and wallets) open. Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025 Two teeny Texas burgs made the list for their preservation of western culture. Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Feb. 2025 Most big burgs saw sizable year-over-year jumps in traffic delays last year, with five of them enduring double-digit increases. Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 Then, filled with admiration for this person who has turned a simple space into a something transcendental, the patron hires Tóth to oversee construction on a community center in the modest burg of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for burg
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burg
Noun
  • Goalkeeper Joan Garcia has joined from city rivals Espanyol for his €25million ($28.6m; £21.1m) release clause, while Athletic Club’s Nico Williams has agreed verbal terms with Barca, who do not view his €60m clause as an obstacle.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • But as those cities become more expensive, the population has traveled to the middle for more affordable options.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Over the next hundred years, groups — many starting at the local level — catalyzed radical change for the better in our country, leading to voter enfranchisement, civil rights, greater equality for the marginalized, and vast civic improvements across towns, cities and governments.
    Anastasia G Mcateer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
  • That reality was tragically underscored over the weekend when four women were killed by a ballistic missile that scored a direct hit on their home in the predominantly Arab town of Tamra, just north of Haifa.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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“Burg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burg. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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