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Hawks spent two decades working as an executive assistant at the Sacred Hearts School, a private Catholic school in the tony Silicon Valley town of Atherton, before her retirement in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

One SpaceX buyer has been eyeing a $32-million pocket listing of his in tony Brentwood for months while waiting for the IPO, according to real estate broker Cory Weiss of Douglas Elliman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

MIAMI—Miami-Dade County’s mayor is pursuing the nuclear option in a battle over a marine terminal on tony Fisher Island that supplies fuel for cruise and cargo ships at PortMiami.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

In the 1960s and early ’70s, she is a plucky striver; in later decades, she is another famous author—book tours, awards, hobnobbing with luminaries, Democratic politics, remodeling homes in tony enclaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

“Curiosity. Or perhaps envy. We’re clearly dressed for an important party. We do look rather tony, don’t we, Marion?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Even after a post-fire decline, the average Altadena home value is currently about $1.15 million, according to Zillow, roughly a third the value of average homes in the mostly tonier Palisades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

But a tonier environment did not equal greater comfort.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Because of the lower property values, even the tonier areas of St. Bernard got less of their damages covered.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

Rawls certainly hasn’t forgotten that Wall could have hosted his foundation’s five-year anniversary in a tonier section of the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Entranced, Weller swan-dove headlong into the heart of Ferry’s unwritten sophisti-pop syllabus with airs that were tonier, goofier and made for extraordinarily easier listening than anything the Jam would’ve deigned to do.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2020

The borough of Westminster, home to some of London’s toniest neighborhoods, said in a 2023 report that it sought to collect payment on 13,423 tickets issued to United Arab Emirates vehicles between 2018 and 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The State Farm move affects some of the county’s toniest neighborhoods — adding another layer of expense and financial risk for homeowners in areas that were already costly and imperiled by wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

MIAMI—For nearly 2 years, bustling teams of archaeologists—totaling more than 120 researchers on some days—have excavated a sprawling waterfront lot here in one of this seaside city’s toniest neighborhoods.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 10, 2023

He has described how his parents saved to send him to Winchester College, one of Britain’s toniest and most expensive boarding schools.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

But it was only the most toniest people who did that kind of a trick.

From Olof Krarer, The Esquimaux Lady A story of her native home by Olof Krarer