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Recent Examples of borough
But there is no evidence Trump has posted anything about giving Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, to New Jersey.
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Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Start in the outer boroughs where there are quiet neighborhoods, or venture further into other areas in the state that provide good public schools and healthy neighborhoods.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025
The performance, which took place Friday (Jan. 17), in David Geffen Hall, marked De La’s first show in the five boroughs in nearly two years, making the set a homecoming of sorts for the New York natives.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Here are three other restaurant companies that are watching the IPO market for their chance to go public:
Panera Brands
A Panera Bread Co. restaurant in the Queens borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
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Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
Start in the outer boroughs where there are quiet neighborhoods, or venture further into other areas in the state that provide good public schools and healthy neighborhoods.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025
The performance, which took place Friday (Jan. 17), in David Geffen Hall, marked De La’s first show in the five boroughs in nearly two years, making the set a homecoming of sorts for the New York natives.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Here are three other restaurant companies that are watching the IPO market for their chance to go public:
Panera Brands
A Panera Bread Co. restaurant in the Queens borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
Noun
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This includes decisions big and small — from burning a city to the ground or keeping it intact, or choosing to bring an item back to a shop, only for the owner to name it after you in gratitude.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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Residents and event planners in the Point Loma-Ocean Beach area are, like many others throughout San Diego, bracing for city fee increases that could go into effect in the next few months — some as early as April.—
Jeanne Rawdin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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Nome, a Gold Rush town, is just south of the Arctic Circle and is known as the ending point of the 1,000-mile (1,610-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.—
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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In December, more than 70 area residents signed a petition requesting an election to make Starbase its own municipality.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
14 Feb. 2025
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In 2001 the licence was renewed, allowing the building to continue to operate as a hotel, and in 2016 an extra floor was added without the necessary permissions from the local municipality.—
Emily Wither,
The Dial,
13 Feb. 2025
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As if the year of the dragon wasn’t finished with us, January 2025 in Los Angeles brought the kind of sudden devastation that could force a postapocalyptic metropolis such as this to reacquaint itself with God, only to declare God dead again as existential crisis demands.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2025
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In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility. Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 accelerated its rise as a dominant metropolis.—
Emily Badger,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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