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How River Forest Park began Back in 1916, the North Kansas City Development Company, the real estate firm responsible for founding the city, had ambitious plans for a new subdivision atop the Clay County Bluffs along Euclid Avenue — now Vernon Street.
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Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
The builder also removed its original plan to send traffic into a neighboring development and will donate two wells to the neighboring English Hills subdivision.
—Joe Marusak
may 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
Except for recent subdivisions such as North River Farms, most lots are 2.5 acres or larger.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling is a subdivision of Reyes Holding, which manages major beer and drink distributors and McDonald’s largest global distributor.
—Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
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Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
The builder also removed its original plan to send traffic into a neighboring development and will donate two wells to the neighboring English Hills subdivision.
—Joe Marusak
may 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
Except for recent subdivisions such as North River Farms, most lots are 2.5 acres or larger.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling is a subdivision of Reyes Holding, which manages major beer and drink distributors and McDonald’s largest global distributor.
—Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivision
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At Justice, he was assigned to the Bureau of Investigation, then a relatively poky subdepartment known to the public, if it was known at all, for sniffing out violations of the 1910 Mann Act.—
Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
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Strauss, who killed himself in 2005, was employed by Ohio State’s athletic department and medical staff for nearly two decades.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Mullin took over from former Secretary Kristi Noem in March after she was fired not long after lawmakers pressed her about the department’s massive spending.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Instead, pluralism, naturally associated with diversity and popular agency, was made into the cultural face of capitalism—it was branded as a false openness mimicking the free market, as a flattening that might cause art and art history to lose the threads of progress and quality.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Aguilar was taken into custody during a SWAT operation involving multiple law enforcement agencies.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Additional charges filed against Frank Blessing, 58, of Simi Valley include assault against a police officer, vandalism over $400, and battery against a nurse or doctor, according to the Ventura County district attorney’s office.—
Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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My office is six milk crates with a board on top of them in the corner of my kitchen, and this lady has a whole squat rack on her second floor with its own shower?—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
4 June 2026
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“Subdivision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivision. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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