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Brownsville

American  
[brounz-vil] / ˈbraʊnz vɪl /

noun

  1. a seaport in southern Texas, near the mouth of the Rio Grande


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Starbase is located about 20 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, and is where SpaceX builds and launches its Starship rockets.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Saronic has shipbuilding capacity in Texas and Louisiana, and is building “Port Alpha,” its next-generation shipyard, in Brownsville, Texas.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

A report by WABC7 in New York said that Underwood was identified as the pedestrian who was crossing an intersection in the Brownsville area when she was struck by an SUV.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

That made me mad enough to say, “Yeah, Brownsville, down past Houston. That’s where I want to go, sir.”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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