precinct
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In the shopping precinct, the glass door of the convenience store is shattered.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
This process created a rare island of higher ground in what is now the east/south-east section of the temple precinct.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
Sunday in front of 156 West 38 St. in the Midtown South precinct.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
Officers took him to a local precinct before transferring him to a police station more than 200 miles away in Nairobi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 9, 2025
“Say, Jones, you been over to the precinct lately?”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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