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- proper noun Alternative form of
Białystok .
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Examples
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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."
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Bialystok studied 450 Alzheimer's patients, all of whom showed the same degree of impairment at the time of diagnosis.
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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
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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
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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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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
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Yetta had been ten when Rahel left their shtetl and went to work in the big city, Bialystok.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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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
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“There was a horrible pogrom in Bialystok— houses burning, Jews beaten to death, tossed out of windows and killed . . .”
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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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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