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belt

[belt] / bɛlt /


NOUN
strip of land with characteristic feature
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Should the departure continue, or even increase, experts say it’s still not likely L.A. will ever be overbuilt like some of its Rust Belt counterparts due to pent-up demand that has never quite been met.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Longtime migration away from parts of Rust Belt has started to reverse.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

In 2018, Cuba joined China's Belt and Road Initiative, which funded several strategic infrastructure projects on the island.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The giant disk stretches nearly 400 billion miles across, making it about 40 times wider than our solar system out to the Kuiper Belt.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the streetcar traveled up and down the Black Belt throughout the day, picking up passengers along the way, setting them down again at their destinations.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield




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