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borough

[bur-oh, buhr-oh] / ˈbɜr oʊ, ˈbʌr oʊ /
NOUN
incorporated municipality smaller than a city
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The New York City borough of Brooklyn is often portrayed with nostalgia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The Green Party leader told the BBC he could be liable for between £3,000 and £4,000 in unpaid council tax, owed to the London borough of Waltham Forest.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

State Assembly member Claire Valdez beat Brooklyn’s borough president for a newly open House seat.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

The scale-up plan involves rolling out static facial recognition across central London and having drone coverage in every London borough in a year's time, the Met said in a press release.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

I remembered him tucking me in, and us listening to a person speaking Greek on the shortwave radio, and him telling me a story about New York’s sixth borough.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

New York City added more than 1.33 million residents between 1900 and 1910—the most people for any decade, ever, aside from when the city’s boroughs were knitted together in their current form.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

The mayor effectively chairs a cabinet made up of the leaders of all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

For a few hours Saturday night, the usual boundaries between neighborhoods, boroughs and even state lines seemed to disappear.

From Salon Jun. 14, 2026

Back in New York, five boroughs of fans gathered to watch anywhere they could: in Central Park and on street corners, in living rooms and bars packed past capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

I had divided Harmonee into three boroughs, or neighborhoods: the hero borough, the monster borough and the regular borough for all the regular people.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore




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