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borough

noun as in incorporated municipality smaller than a city

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"We are a working people's borough in a working people's city," Ocasio-Cortez said to huge cheers.

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A giant yellow banner on a busy expressway linking New York's Brooklyn and Queens boroughs proclaims: "Vote Zohran -- for a city we can afford."

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City Hall will be able to intervene in planning applications that contain more than 50 homes and were previously rejected by borough councils.

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An Ofsted report published in February 2024 identified serious failures which left vulnerable children in the borough either being harmed or put at risk of harm.

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"This is a borough which we all belong to equally and I unreservedly condemn the people behind this action," she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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