precinct
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This process created a rare island of higher ground in what is now the east/south-east section of the temple precinct.
From Science Daily
As these books show, good storytelling need never leave the precincts of realism.
But Ms. Machado led the opposition strategy to get out the vote and capture images of voter tally-sheets at each precinct at the end of the day.
Officers took him to a local precinct before transferring him to a police station more than 200 miles away in Nairobi.
As he sat down to face questions from the feds, his sentences traveled winding paths through vague precincts to fog-filled destinations.
From Los Angeles Times
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