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  • Back Bay
    Back Bay
    noun
    a prosperous residential and commercial area of Boston, Massachusetts.
  • back bay
    back bay
    noun
    a small bay or inlet of a lake

Back Bay

American  

noun

  1. a prosperous residential and commercial area of Boston, Massachusetts.


back bay British  

noun

  1. a small bay or inlet of a lake

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“There’s a reason that younger people tend to have high-deductible health plans, and obviously it’s affordability,” Robert Jeter, a financial adviser with Back Bay Financial Planning and Investments, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Irmer said the two walked around the Back Bay before entering an apartment building that was under renovation at the time, prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

Under that scenario, the streets of Boston's Back Bay we are gazing out across at would become capillaries of the Charles River.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

Over his shoulder lies the gentle arc of Bombay’s Back Bay.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

The child of a well-heeled, status-oriented Back Bay family of antique dealers, she was far out of the league of a jockey with a seventh-grade formal education and no fixed address.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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