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Recent Examples of borough
Both museums are in downtown Ketchikan and reachable by foot from the cruise port or the borough’s free shuttle bus during the summer.
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Eve Chen, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
As a Manhattan native, public school league rules forbade Powell from playing for a school outside the borough.
—Luke Cyphers, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2026
Living in New York City’s Manhattan borough on $53,000 a year isn’t easy.
—Mike Winters
tasia Jensen, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
Monday, that same man was a criminal defendant incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York’s Brooklyn borough, having just been arraigned on drug trafficking, narcoterrorism and weapons charges.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
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Other cities just added to the tour include Norfolk, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Nashville and Lexington.—
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For months, the council has voted and revoted on paying city staff a competitive salary and opening a position to manage all the infrastructure projects.—
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That's a big bite for a town of 1500 with an annual budget of a little over $3 million a year.—
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The neighborhood/area The hotel has a plum position on the Eendrachtsplein, a buzzy town square in the heart of the city with trams, buses, and a metro line connecting it to all corners of town.—
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Henriques Machava, the mayor of Chibuto, said efforts are being made with Mabuiango's family to formalize funeral arrangements and indicated the municipality would take care of the cost, according to the outlet.—
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Even after Colorado voters passed Amendment 2 in 1992, which effectively banned municipalities from establishing gay protections, Busch says his hometown remained a safe haven for the community.—
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Admire holiday toy trains racing through a miniature metropolis.—
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There's something about being in a bustling new city far away from home—and some metropolises seem to have more of a magnetic draw for tourists than others.—
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But there are a few burgs in America that rise up to and above standard courtesy.—
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Its city and school budgets are balanced and the burg generally is well run.—
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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