precinct
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In June 2020 Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle described the occupied protest around her city’s east police precinct as “a summer of love.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
At a small shopping precinct in Rochdale, Greater Manchester is a pet shop called Amber Pets.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
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 • Jan. 4, 2026
Sunday in front of 156 West 38 St. in the Midtown South precinct.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
On June 29, 1889, when Holmes’s building was half completed, Chicago annexed Englewood and soon afterward established a new police precinct, the Tenth, Second Division, at Sixty-third and Wentworth, seven blocks from Holmes’s pharmacy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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