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Brookline

American  
[brook-lahyn] / ˈbrʊkˌlaɪn /

noun

  1. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.


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The crowd's behaviour drew comparisons with the 1999 Ryder Cup at Brookline and the hostile atmosphere of Hazeltine in 2016.

From BBC

But by the time Neves Valente confronted Loureiro at his Brookline, Mass., apartment building this past week, Loureiro’s career had soared while Neves Valente’s withered.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Levenson ran the numbers for a hypothetical family in his home town of Brookline, Mass., which is objectively upper-crust, but his approach applies more widely.

From Los Angeles Times

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