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city

adjective as in metropolitan

noun as in large town

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The people leaving New York are disproportionately older, richer, more established professionals — people who need the city less.

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The video fueled a rumor that the Illinois National Guard was being sent to the city to put it on “lockdown.”

Dueñas said authorities threatened him when he publicly questioned police mistreatment of LGBTQ people in Cárdenas, a city adjacent to Matanzas.

In Delaware, Beebe Healthcare, a hospital in the city of Lewes that serves the Rehoboth Beach area, was one of five Delaware hospitals to receive a score of 100 in the 2020 Healthcare Equality Index report.

They took over a big chunk of the city, 20 percent of the city.

Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.

To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.

“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.

When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.

Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.

The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to city, such as: burghal, citified, civic, civil, interurban, and intraurban.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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