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Recent Examples of burg 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 The mountains surrounding town keep it relatively isolated, as do the serpentine roads between it and larger burgs. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 9 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for burg
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Cubs rolled into town having won four out of five.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Burg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burg. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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