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  • proper noun a neighborhood located in Boston, MA

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Examples

  • It's in a very gritty, blue-collar neighborhood called Mission Hill such south of downtown Boston.

    CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2009 2009

  • It was part of a mixed-income, owner-occupied, townhouse community being built in Mission Hill.

    Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home Randy Susan Meyers 2010

  • When I started Mission Hill in Boston, we began not with an Outward Bound ropes course, but with a course run by Eleanor Duckworth of Harvard read The Having of Wonderful Ideas with 10 parents, 10 Harvard students, and our original 10 staff members.

    Meier: Partisan mindsets and teacher collegiality Valerie Strauss 2010

  • At both Mission Hill and Central Park East Secondary School, (two successful urban public schools) we graduated our students only after they successfully defended their work before a committee that consisted of both friends and expert strangers.

    Meier: Trust and skepticism in public schools 2010

  • Dodging traffic between Fillmore Street and Mission Hill, Kaplan personally wheeled in its colossal block of lead shielding on an automobile jack borrowed from a neighboring garage owner.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Back in the days of the crazy housing boom in Boston, when prices went insane, jumping by hundreds of thousands in a few short years, the Mission Hill triple-decker where I rented an apartment for my daughters and myself was sold to a gonna-get-rich-condo guy who quadrupled our rent to an impossible sum.

    Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home Randy Susan Meyers 2010

  • Back in the days of the crazy housing boom in Boston, when prices went insane, jumping by hundreds of thousands in a few short years, the Mission Hill triple-decker where I rented an apartment for my daughters and myself was sold to a gonna-get-rich-condo guy who quadrupled our rent to an impossible sum.

    Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home 2010

  • The district covers the western portion of Boston starting at Mission Hill, through JP and part of Roslindale, through West Roxbury the blue area on this map PDF.

    Hey, Boston special election tomorrow! 2010

  • It was part of a mixed-income, owner-occupied, townhouse community being built in Mission Hill.

    Randy Susan Meyers: How Ted Kennedy Helped Me Home 2010

  • Dodging traffic between Fillmore Street and Mission Hill, Kaplan personally wheeled in its colossal block of lead shielding on an automobile jack borrowed from a neighboring garage owner.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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