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precinct

[pree-singkt] / ˈpri sɪŋkt /


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Empty shops in Les Quennevais Parade and Precinct and cost of living pressures are the key concerns for voters in St Brelade.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

An early triumph, from 1976, is “Assault on Precinct 13,” a low-budget riff on Howard Hawks’s “Rio Bravo.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

I wish we could point to a new robust corner of Minnehaha and Lake Street where the condemned Third Precinct still blights the corner, but we can’t.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

I had ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ above my bed in seventh and eighth grade.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

Ma and me had been sitting in the waiting room at the Twenty-Eighth Precinct cop station in Harlem.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore




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