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borough

[bur-oh, buhr-oh] / ˈbɜr oʊ, ˈbʌr oʊ /
NOUN
incorporated municipality smaller than a city
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In her victory speech at the count in Camden, Abdi-Wali, who came to the UK as a child refugee from Somalia, said her victory was a testament to the success of diversity in the borough.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

He says on the doorstep, voters are telling him "they're fed up with the crime, disorder. This borough is crime-ridden. It's soaked in crime."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Stillman is a Camden councillor, representing West Hampstead in the north of the borough.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The pair met again in February in Washington, where the mayor pitched the president on a sweeping federally backed housing project in Trump’s home borough of Queens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

When my grandparents moved to the United States, in the 1950s, the South Bronx had already begun its transformation from a majority Jewish borough to one dominated by blacks and Latinos.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Tens of thousands of runners fill the streets with spectators cheering them on in each of the city’s boroughs during the annual New York City Marathon, taking place on Nov. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which posts children a free book every month until their fifth birthday, is to double the number of London boroughs it covers.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

A total of £1.8bn has been pledged by water companies, boroughs and charities, with London's mayor adding £2.7m across three years, on top of £13.6m already promised.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Other boroughs, including Kensington and Chelsea—where Harrods is located—said they were unable to provide similar data to Westminster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

There was a ripped one in New York that, judging from the location of the hole in the wall, was one of the five boroughs of New York City.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




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