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

The success of "Mare of Easttown" makes the declining factory burg the new favored destination for meaty, complex storytelling.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2021

After all, the Kings County burg is 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 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