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downtown

[daun-taun] / ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn /


NOUN
business district
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The 2015 Bond film "Spectre" opens with the British spy walking through a crowd dressed as the dead in downtown Mexico City.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Villanueva had intended to participate in a planned tour of homeless encampments in downtown L.A. later in the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

McPartland compares traditional approaches to studying face recognition with attempting to understand traffic throughout an entire city by monitoring just one downtown street.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Some of the outfits on display seem more suited for the parade held by a certain downtown department store, though that holiday march wouldn’t begin until 1924.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Friday evening, Kyle and his family piled into their minivan and drove downtown to the library.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Office and retail properties suffered after urban downtowns were hollowed out by remote work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

In addition, “many condo buildings are located in urban downtowns, which are less attractive than they used to be for people who now work from home at least part-time,” the paper reported.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026

"Carriers really appreciate Freightera's reliable demand for service, which has grown every year consistently, right through Covid, the inflation afterwards and the current freight recession, one of the largest running freight downtowns," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

Downtown Los Angeles is one of the few downtowns across the country that saw growth pre- to post-pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

Even the brick buildings in the ramshackle little downtowns we drive past seem crisp in this light.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green


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