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metro

[me-troh] / ˈmɛ troʊ /


NOUN
subway
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More than 40 Paris metro stations will be closed and tram services will also be disrupted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I’m a suburban dude,” he said, smiling from his home in metro Atlanta, his cropped two-toned dreads bobbing as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

After our meeting at the metro station, I meet them both in a country park in a suburb outside Chicago.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Las Vegas has taken an aggressive approach and reduced the metro region’s water use by 40% since 2002, even as its population doubled, according to a spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It took an hour to get there, and by now I was up near the Ocala National Forest, not really even the Orlando metro area anymore.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

The data release also covers the London Underground, trams, metros and other light rail services.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

These are the top five metros where for-sale listings had the highest share of price cuts, according to Zillow.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Similar signs of reversal have appeared in some other Midwest metros, including Dayton and Canton, in Ohio, and Racine, Wis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Equity Residential, started by the late billionaire real-estate investor Sam Zell, has properties concentrated in major coastal markets in the U.S. as well as major metros including Atlanta, Austin and Denver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Prices fell from year-ago levels in 11 of the 19 metros for which data was available—Detroit was not included due to data collection issues—and was about flat in Miami.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026


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