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Recent Examples of borough
As the trend gathered followers in every borough, the walls of New York City became a gigantic canvas on which the collective unconscious was projected.
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Antonio Sergio Bessa, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
Queens is a borough of New York City.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
For 30 years, Bernard Craddock has been one of the roughly 200 workers handcrafting pianos at the 150-year-old Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, a neighborhood in the New York borough of Queens.
—Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
While the Nets have always taken pride in elevating local talent and spotlighting artists with direct ties to the borough, Kota’s performance will come as part of a broad strategy this season to celebrate Brooklyn in a massive way.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
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Antonio Sergio Bessa, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
Queens is a borough of New York City.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
For 30 years, Bernard Craddock has been one of the roughly 200 workers handcrafting pianos at the 150-year-old Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, a neighborhood in the New York borough of Queens.
—Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
While the Nets have always taken pride in elevating local talent and spotlighting artists with direct ties to the borough, Kota’s performance will come as part of a broad strategy this season to celebrate Brooklyn in a massive way.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
Noun
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In the show, Marshall says his father moved to Eerie to study it as the most normal city in the United States.—
Jenny Porter Tilley,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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Originally an agricultural town, cemeteries began to take root in Colma after a 1901 ordinance banned new burials within San Francisco’s city limits, a decision driven by limited real estate and a booming population.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Mulroney, who grew up in a small Quebec town, had an ideological affinity with the emerging trends of privatization and deregulation in 1980s Anglo-American conservatism.—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, the new legislation would prohibit counties and municipalities from cutting funding for law enforcement.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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That is up to local municipalities.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Millennia from now, will urban legends describe the horrific disaster that destroyed the string of American metropolises along the Pacific coast, from Chief Seattle’s Town to the City of Angels?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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This Brazilian metropolis, with over one million inhabitants and located in the Amazon region, will host international leaders this November for the UN Climate Summit.—
Tarciana Medeiros,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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Just 1,890 people live in the tiny Midwestern burg, but there must be at least that many guns to go around.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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New faces are finding them, from Bokey locals and folks from outer-burgs like Debary and DeLand to longtime regulars from Kissimmee and Lake Nona.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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