Beverly
Americannoun
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a city in northeastern Massachusetts.
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Also Beverley. a first name: from an Old English word meaning “dweller at the beaver meadow.”
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“People took offense with this book being placed out for kids,” said Cienfuegos, opening the book to passages marked in yellow highlighter over a salad at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Beverly Hills is heavily Jewish, and the board is entirely so, but many residents argued public schools shouldn’t display another country’s flag, and worried it would favor one group over another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He makes crawfish, listens to Frankie Beverly and Maze, and doesn’t ingratiate himself with the sports media machine, largely a white institutional space.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
It opened its first retail bakeries in the U.S. in San Francisco and Beverly Hills in 1981, and its first restaurant in Corte Madera in 1987, according to its website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Nurse Beverly asked, pausing the towel with Max’s hair left in spikes, just the way he liked it.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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