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ghettos

noun

variants also ghettoes

plural of ghetto

as in enclaves

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My own research shows that many Dominicans of Haitian descent grow up speaking Creole at home as a first language, particularly in the border region and in Haitian enclaves throughout the country.

— Kendall Medford, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
Griffin does have support from residents of three nearby wealthy enclaves — Palm Island, Hibiscus Island and Star Island, Bloomberg reported.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of enclaves

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No longer confined to gambling dens and brothel districts, yakuza muscled their way into other businesses, some legal, some not.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Here’s the Week 8 schedule for Fort Worth-area high school football teams and schools in area districts.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026

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Police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks, paving stones and other objects at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city center.

— SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Police used tear gas and water cannons on Saturday to disperse violent groups in the capital, where people wearing hoods and masks threw fireworks and other objects at officers in the Place de la République.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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That’s when Wormie World, an art scavenger hunt featuring hundreds of adorable ceramic worms, will host its third annual free urban art hunt throughout the city’s central neighborhoods.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026
As was often said of New York neighborhoods with a strong Mafia presence, tightly run hierarchical mobs like to control the streets, and have little use for violent freelancers.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of neighborhoods

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With two sections framing her face in the front, the back half of her head was teased and tangled into a little bouffant lift at the crown.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Separate sections were constructed at puppet scale, allowing animators to stage performances that could be integrated with miniature elements and digital backgrounds.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of sections

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Taken together, the films deal with family, faith, memory, identity and migration, in forms that range from close-quarters drama to genre work.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
As such, it could be easily exported to describe Jewish quarters elsewhere—and eventually adapted to describe sites of confinement or exclusion the world over.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

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