Brookline
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Surveillance footage captured a gray Nissan Sentra like the one Neves Valente had rented a mile from Loureiro’s home in Brookline, Mass., but this time with an unregistered Maine license plate over the Florida plate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
James Harris Simons was born in 1938 to the manager of a shoe factory in Brookline, Mass. His parents weren’t wealthy, but they were ambitious for their son.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025
Nearly a decade later, after a fight with her adulterous husband, the 25-year-old Follett left her apartment in Brookline, Mass., with $30 in her pocket and a notebook.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
Fifteen-time major winner Tiger Woods was influential in the US players getting paid before the 1999 contest at Brookline.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
On Wednesday, August 6, 1890, three weeks after Ellsworth’s Brookline visit, the exposition company telegraphed Olmsted: “When can you be here?”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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