Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southern California surrounded by Los Angeles. It adjoins Hollywood and is famous as a fashionable residential area for show business personalities.
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- proper noun A
city withinLos Angeles ,California .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in southwestern California surrounded by Los Angeles; home of many Hollywood actors
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Examples
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He calls the Beverly Hills supporters of the Santa Monica alignment "Pinocchios" and "Babbitts," in the same sentence, no less.
John Mirisch: Middle America and the Westside Subway John Mirisch 2011
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Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors 'funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.
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I called the Beverly Hills' Cable TV office at City Hall ed. 310 285-1178, which has actually been really good to me in the past.
Time Warner Cable Misbills Even Own Company's Employees - The Consumerist 2007
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The reasons may not always be apparent, but one may sense a certain connection in the terms Beverly Hills and cosmetic surgery.
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The irony here is rich, to say the least, considering all the Constellation advocates who called Beverly Hills "alarmist" and "hysterical" when the potential safety concerns of tunneling under a high school -- with both oil fields and its own fault -- were initially brought up.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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The irony here is rich, to say the least, considering all the Constellation advocates who called Beverly Hills "alarmist" and "hysterical" when the potential safety concerns of tunneling under a high school -- with both oil fields and its own fault -- were initially brought up.
John Mirisch: Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play John Mirisch 2011
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Mr. Mulcahy says he's aware there's a housing downturn but calls Beverly Hills a unique market.
Beverly Hills Selling Spree Juliet Chung 2011
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The irony here is rich, to say the least, considering all the Constellation advocates who called Beverly Hills "alarmist" and "hysterical" when the potential safety concerns of tunneling under a high school -- with both oil fields and its own fault -- were initially brought up.
John Mirisch: Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play John Mirisch 2011
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In my last piece, a cover story on the future of transit in LA for a community newspaper, I took heat in the comments for referring to the Beverly Hills critics of a station at Constellation as "a handful of Beverly Hills opponents."
Joel Epstein: Revolution, Democracy and the Subway in Beverly Hills Joel Epstein 2011
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The irony here is rich, to say the least, considering all the Constellation advocates who called Beverly Hills "alarmist" and "hysterical" when the potential safety concerns of tunneling under a high school -- with both oil fields and its own fault -- were initially brought up.
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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