enclave
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A Silicon Valley enclave topples Miami island as the most expensive U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Spanish police and troops patrolled the streets of Ceuta on Sunday as the enclave largely returned to normal after the sudden mass influx between Wednesday and Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
The seven-square mile enclave on a peninsula jutting into the Strait of Gibraltar has been Spanish since 1580.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The Independent continues its coverage of the border crisis at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
And he had grown up just a few miles down Lake Washington on Mercer Island, long before it became an enclave for the wealthy.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The franchise fled further and further from coastal cultural centers, shifting from the “Real World” of New York City and Chicago to the air-conditioned enclaves of New Jersey and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and prolific property investor Flea has brought his “extraordinary” Malibu sanctuary back to the market for $7.99 million inside one of California’s most exclusive beachfront enclaves.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Other tech leaders are trying to carve out independent enclaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Spain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves, which are located in North Africa, represent the European Union's only land border with Africa.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Abigail herself reported that all the bedrock Federalist enclaves of New England were taken by surprise: “the whole community were like a flock of frightened pigions; nobody had their story ready.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
The stamp cards could also include, for the completists, two cantonal quadripoints, and some space for the curious case of the two Appenzells, formerly a unified canton enclaved within Sankt Gallen.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2012
Between this and Dudley lie the great ironworks of Roundoak, and the extensive suburb of Netherton in the enclaved portion of Worcestershire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Further, the writing, though large, is not easily legible, for it is involved, enclaved, and conjointed in a manner sufficiently puzzling to those who see it for the first time.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
DUDLEY, a municipal, county and parliamentary borough and market-town of Worcestershire, England, in a portion of that county enclaved in Staffordshire, 8 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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