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  • noun a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island; site of the Belmont Stakes

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Examples

  • BELMONT - An anti-animal research group is preparing to unveil two billboards criticizing McLean Hospital in Belmont for experiments with squirrel monkeys.

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2010

  • BELMONT, N.C. -- Police are searching for at least two men responsible for breaking into seven cars in Belmont early Friday morning.

    CAROLINAS' NEWS CONNECTION 2009

  • SEBASTIAN JUNGER, AUTHOR, "A DEATH IN BELMONT": Belmont was the quintessential American suburb.

    CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2006 2006

  • Murray constructs a fictional town for this new upper class as well, which he calls Belmont.

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE 2012

  • The information about A Death in Belmont shown above was first featured in "BookBrowse Previews" - BookBrowse's monthly online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

    A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary 2010

  • A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary and media reviews.

    A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary 2010

  • To illustrate just how wide the gap has grown between the new upper class and the new lower class, let me start with the broader upper-middle and working classes from which they are drawn, using two fictional neighborhoods that I hereby label Belmont (after an archetypal upper-middle-class suburb near Boston) and Fishtown (after a neighborhood in Philadelphia that has been home to the white working class since the Revolution).

    The New American Divide Charles Murray 2012

  • I only paid for this from Kmart in Belmont, WA, they had about 20-30 in stock left.

    Polaroid Pogo Portable Digital Camera Printer, Only $20 at Kmart ... admin 2009

  • The report prompted Peter Dorfman, a software engineer in Belmont, Mass., to set aside several thousand dollars to insulate his home, in hopes of not only saving money in the long run but also joining the ranks of his most efficient neighbors.

    The Secret to Turning Consumers Green Stephanie Simon 2010

  • A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary and media reviews.

    A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger: Book summary 2010

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  • Potato variety Belmont has "round to oval tubers; smooth white to very light buff skin; shallow to medium deep eyes; white flesh." Released in 1995 by Ag Canada.

    June 13, 2010