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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 within Los Angeles, California.

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  • noun a city in southwestern California surrounded by Los Angeles; home of many Hollywood actors

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Jerry Brown: California's Own Bernie Madoff 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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