burg
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The town is Maplewood, a quaint commuter burg which is home to a number of New York Times employees and, probably not coincidentally, is the subject of frequent coverage in the New York Times.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2023
The former timber and mining burg of Index, roughly 60 miles northeast of Seattle, once welcomed such pass-through traffic along its few unpretentious blocks via a 10-mile winding road from Gold Bar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
But, for more than a decade, the city has been attracting a variety of high-profile businesses that might once have passed over the humble burg of 17,000 residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
The success of "Mare of Easttown" makes the declining factory burg the new favored destination for meaty, complex storytelling.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
