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When comparing New York City’s boroughs, couples who live together save the most money in Manhattan, where the average one-bedroom apartment rents for $4,200, according to the report.
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Samantha Delouya, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Set in East London’s mostly residential Tower Hamlets borough, the area of Bow Common runs along Limehouse Cut, London’s oldest canal.
—Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Families paraded on the Grand Concourse, the borough’s Champs-Élysées, catching a movie at Loew’s Paradise Theater or the Ascot, sipping sodas at Krum’s, or gathering outside the synagogues on Shabbat and holidays.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2025
The city also launched transformative projects across all five boroughs, including the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Brooklyn, SPARC Kips Bay in Manhattan, Willets Point in Queens, and the North Shore Action Plan on Staten Island.
—Keith Howard, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2025
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Samantha Delouya, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Set in East London’s mostly residential Tower Hamlets borough, the area of Bow Common runs along Limehouse Cut, London’s oldest canal.
—Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Families paraded on the Grand Concourse, the borough’s Champs-Élysées, catching a movie at Loew’s Paradise Theater or the Ascot, sipping sodas at Krum’s, or gathering outside the synagogues on Shabbat and holidays.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2025
The city also launched transformative projects across all five boroughs, including the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Brooklyn, SPARC Kips Bay in Manhattan, Willets Point in Queens, and the North Shore Action Plan on Staten Island.
—Keith Howard, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borough
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Read Next West Ada ID bill would let cities fire library directors.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Feb. 2025
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DeBoer assured city officials all former volunteers will receive an email about the new program, but will go through the same process as everyone else who applies.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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The footage was captured in Vang Vieng, a town in the northwest region of Laos.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Soon, Rick can’t take it anymore and heads into town to find marijuana (cannabis is currently legal in Thailand), with Chelsea in tow.—
Dan Heching,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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Like state government, municipalities also have exhausted most of their emergency federal pandemic aid.—
Jessika Harkay,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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They were later restricted to the Bucharest municipality and nearby Ilfov County, and then to Romania.—
STEPHEN McGRATH,
TIME,
27 Feb. 2025
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Many of the selections underscore the social stresses and inequalities of the growing metropolis, the scars left by the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, and the human costs of Argentina’s recurrent economic crises.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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That is what they are being punished for—an effort to free themselves from the control of a former metropolis.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 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 12 Mar. 2025.
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