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Recent Examples of borough
The new garden brings that total in the borough to nine.
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Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
Previously, Boylan mounted unsuccessful campaigns for Manhattan borough president in 2021 and Congress in 2020.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
The jokes are constant, the borough pride runs deep, and the competitive spirit that once fueled cafeteria debates now powers a movement that’s turning heads far beyond Brooklyn.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2026
For now, the city’s strategy is to build better gray, blue, and green infrastructure in every borough, and to do as much as possible to hold and absorb rain.
—Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
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Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
Previously, Boylan mounted unsuccessful campaigns for Manhattan borough president in 2021 and Congress in 2020.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
The jokes are constant, the borough pride runs deep, and the competitive spirit that once fueled cafeteria debates now powers a movement that’s turning heads far beyond Brooklyn.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2026
For now, the city’s strategy is to build better gray, blue, and green infrastructure in every borough, and to do as much as possible to hold and absorb rain.
—Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
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To close out a busy Day 2, the Steelers selected a mauling guard with a mullet, who will come to a city where that haircut never went out of style.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former President Islam Karimov, is behind bars in Uzbekistan as the trial opens in a Swiss federal criminal court in the southern city of Bellinzona.—
Jamey Keaten,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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The story is set in 2013, in a town in an unnamed New England state.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Boasting 37 miles of pure electric power, the NX450h+ certainly succeeds for consumers looking to float around town.—
Marc D Grasso,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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QuadCom formed through a 1979 intergovernmental agreement between eight local municipalities.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Small municipalities typically have neither the expertise nor the funds to adequately secure their infrastructure, leaving them open to intrusion.—
Sue Halpern,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolises, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Viewed from certain perspectives—the perspective of history, the perspective of the roughly one quarter of the world that was once colonized by Britain—London is a metropolis built on crime.—
Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Franchises in other burgs can apparently go weeks, even months, without making headlines about matters other than wins and losses.—
Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas Morning News,
31 Mar. 2026
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But there are a few burgs in America that rise up to and above standard courtesy.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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