Eventually we noticed that hawker centres have become some kind of social gathering place where family and friends come.

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On a recent snowy evening, at least a dozen people huddled over plates of food in Graziano's tent, which has become a gathering place where displaced residents can exchange greetings and get daily updates.

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The convention center has become a big place where people are gathering and that's closer to you.

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That forest, they believe, was a place where some of these suspects were gathering before the arrests.

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For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

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Police in riot gear charged the youths, pushing them back on to the Place de l'Opera where the crowds were gathering, but the situation remained volatile.

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