borough
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"Our priorities as a council will always be focused on serving local people and bringing meaningful opportunities to the beautiful borough we call home," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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
He told me how he saw the city lights going out borough by borough at the time it happened, just before 10 p.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She told BBC Newsnight the proposed 94% hike in Wandsworth, a south-west London borough run by the Tories, was "outrageous".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Because what was so inspiring about the leap was not how the jumper got from one borough to the other, but how he stayed between them for so long.”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
Counties in this category include the five boroughs of New York, as well as Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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
London is an outlier with an average disposable income of more than £36,000 per head although there are very large variations between London's boroughs.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Will she closely follow her predecessor's agenda or does she have different priorities for a city region which consists of 10 boroughs and is home to more than two million people?
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
They would arrive in New York Harbor and Latinos from all five boroughs would be there to greet them.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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