neighborhood
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After the 25-foot-deep hole swallowed Cage’s driveway, the city of Malibu red-tagged 31 homes on the street, forcing evacuations since the damage blocks the only route in and out of the beach side neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Employees often spotted them having lunch at a Mexican restaurant near Two Sigma’s headquarters in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In June 2021, she picked up a gated estate in Toluca Lake, a high-end neighborhood with celebrity residents that have included Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, and Kirsten Dunst.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
It has some classical “history of a comedian” parts to it, but also we were there when she had to deal with things like the Altadena fire burning down her neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
You could always tell when someone in the neighborhood was having a sleepover, because then the kids who weren’t invited suddenly had gobs of toilet paper in all the trees in their yards.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“The looting drew attention to a segment of the population—specifically young people from certain neighborhoods, some of whom are from immigrant backgrounds,” said Zulfikarpasic, the pollster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
“When products that can be misused are easy to find in our neighborhoods, a classroom lesson can only do so much,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In Walton, a Liverpool suburb that ranks as one of Britain’s most deprived neighborhoods, around 1 in 2 households claim welfare, and 1 in 5 working-age residents claim PIP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, shoes fitted with motion sensors could provide feedback as patients practice walking at home or around their neighborhoods.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
For the most part, these gangs were loosely organized bands of young people from working-class neighborhoods in large cities.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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