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downtown

[doun-toun] / ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn /


NOUN
business district
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Characters drift about downtown fundraisers, Italian villas and second homes on the North Fork.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Where the first wave of bands that emerged from downtown were more traditionally rock and roll and melodic, No Wave was the louder, darker, discordant underbelly and the logical next step.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

The next day, LA Lakers orthopaedic surgeon Steve Lombardo rang McKechnie to apologise and asked if he would see O'Neal the following week, and whether he would come into downtown Vancouver for the consultation.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

This year, Bob Baker will pay close to half a million in rent, an amount, says Evans, that is double the theater’s budget when it was in its prior space near downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Apollinaire was taken downtown to the Palais de Justice.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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