West Side
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Example Sentences
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The Los Angeles County Fire Department oversaw the response of the Eaton fire, and it has come under intense scrutiny over the botched alerts and limited firefighting resources on the west side of town.
From Los Angeles Times
It could have been beautiful, if Nim hadn’t known that Jack was on the west side of the island, being tossed even farther from home, and Alex was on the east being thrown toward it.
From Literature
Flames that tore through the city of Altadena in January 2025 killed 19 people, the majority of them on the west side -- home to a large African-American community.
From Barron's
Danny marveled at the artwork in the subway station as they emerged somewhere called the Upper West Side.
From Literature
“I don’t think anybody competes with me,” says Eli Zabar, whose parents opened Zabar’s on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, when asked about the new arrivals.
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