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a thickly settled, highly populated area
moved from a small town into a much bigger burg
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Recent Examples of burg
In addition to the home team, audience members will see comic competitors from such distant burgs and lands as New York, the Twin Cities, Boston, Seattle, Houston, Las Vegas and the Jersey Shore.
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Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2024
The burg revisions generally are formally proposed on the first day of the session, when Lamont also will deliver a State of the State address.
—Yash Roy, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2024
Many locals here have New Orleans roots, and this little burg is all about letting those bons temps rouler.
—Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 20 May 2024
Over his time with William Pitt Sotheby’s, Smith averaged 12 residential sales a year in the monied burgs of Westport, Weston, and Wilton.
—Sal Cataldi, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
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Last September, Prada opened a temporary store at Barcelona’s Marina Port Vell harbor in conjunction with the 37th America’s Cup sailing competition in the Spanish city.Martino Carrera, WWD, 28 Nov. 2024
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Tourism to the bustling Spanish city was up by 24% in 2023, and there are no shortage of places to stay—from the best Airbnbs in Barcelona to the chicest hotels.Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
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Later that day, the Fannin County Sheriff's Office reported that Soren, who is now 11, walked less than a mile into town to visit the local Dollar General store.Sally Hawkins, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Linda McMahon was born in New Bern, North Carolina, a small coastal town known as the birthplace of Pepsi.Christopher R. Marsicano, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Sprawling cities in the South and Southwest emerged seemingly overnight, while new suburbs encircled older metropolises in the North.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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The Dallas congressman and local native won Webb as well as populous Hidalgo and Cameron counties, home of the border-straddling metropolis of McAllen-Reynosa and Brownsville-Matamoros — but by far less than past Democrats.Saul Elbein, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Burg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burg. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
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