burg

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His band rolled into the lakefront burg of Manitowoc, Wis., the heart of Green Bay Packers country, on a night in 1972 when the Packers were facing off against the Detroit Lions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

The town is Maplewood, a quaint commuter burg which is home to a number of New York Times employees and, probably not coincidentally, is the subject of frequent coverage in the New York Times.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

One of the earliest proceeded June 11 in Fall City, the unincorporated burg 25 miles east of Seattle.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2022

The success of "Mare of Easttown" makes the declining factory burg the new favored destination for meaty, complex storytelling.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2021

Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown