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downtown

[doun-toun] / ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn /


NOUN
business district
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Inside the long-shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, bulletin boards, furniture and other remnants of a once active hospital remain, frozen in time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Inclusions vary, but the restaurant choices were thankfully better than the options in the downtown Las Vegas all-inclusive I tried last summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The four artists also took part in another Road to World Cup Community Day in downtown L.A. at Gloria Molina Grand Park on March 14.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

"What a place this is!" he gushed, of Invercargill, excitement bursting out of him like he was in some rooftop bar in downtown Tokyo or a speakeasy in the East Village in New York.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

The downtown flattened out to weedy lots strewn between plain brick and wooden clapboard buildings.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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