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  • proper noun Alternative form of Białystok.

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Examples

  • As they grow up, their brains show better "executive control," a system key to higher functioning — as Bialystok puts it, "the most important part of your mind."

    Speaking 2 languages may delay getting Alzheimer's 2011

  • Bialystok studied 450 Alzheimer's patients, all of whom showed the same degree of impairment at the time of diagnosis.

    Speaking 2 languages may delay getting Alzheimer's 2011

  • The young entrepreneur, who learned butchering from his father in Bialystok, Poland, kept late hours on Washington Street.

    Where's the Beef? A Steak Makes a Long Journey Jessica Firger 2011

  • The young entrepreneur, who learned butchering from his father in Bialystok, Poland, kept late hours on Washington Street.

    Where's the Beef? A Steak Makes a Long Journey Jessica Firger 2011

  • Last year, while visiting Poland in search of traces of my grandparents 'lives, I landed in the eastern towns of Bialystok and Knyszyn (sounds like knishn) and unearthed details that linked the iconic Jewish food to Catholic mourning rituals.

    Laura Silver: My Big Jewish Halloween Costume Laura Silver 2010

  • She remembered what Rahel had said about the pogrom in Bialystok: This one girl—she might have been you or me.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Yetta had been ten when Rahel left their shtetl and went to work in the big city, Bialystok.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Born Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman in Bialystok then part of the Russian empire in 1896, Vertov began working on the newsreel "Kino-Week" for the new Soviet government in 1918.

    Visualize a Soviet Utopia Kristin M. Jones 2011

  • “There was a horrible pogrom in Bialystok— houses burning, Jews beaten to death, tossed out of windows and killed . . .”

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Last year, while visiting Poland in search of traces of my grandparents 'lives, I landed in the eastern towns of Bialystok and Knyszyn (sounds like knishn) and unearthed details that linked the iconic Jewish food to Catholic mourning rituals.

    Laura Silver: My Big Jewish Halloween Costume Laura Silver 2010

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