Thesaurus results for DISTRICT

district

noun

ˈdi-(ˌ)strikt

as in neighborhood

an area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature Independence Hall in Philadelphia's historic district

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Recent Examples of district According to the district, about 46% of teachers are currently at the top of the pay scale (MA+60), earning between $92,814 and $129,589 per year. —

Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026 Following a political career spanning five decades, Webster is not seeking re-election as the representative for Florida’s 11th district, which takes in a wide swath of west Central Florida. —

Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026 Prizes of $600 or higher can be collected at any California State Lottery district office or by mail. —

Don Sweeney april 28, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026 According to federal data, its per-pupil spending is nearly 50 percent higher than Los Angeles’s and Chicago’s (the second- and fourth-largest districts), and 150 percent higher than Miami’s (the third-largest). —

Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for district

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Many of the pictures were captured on the Day of the Dead, at the annual feast of the cult of Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Our Lady of Holy Death), in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2026
Built in 1993 to accommodate more than 16,000 Israelis, the shelter found a new life during the Israel-Iran war as a public refuge for residents of Neve Shaanan, among Tel Aviv’s most diverse neighborhoods and one of its poorest, home mainly to asylum seekers and foreign workers.

— Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026