metropolitan
Example Sentences
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"Running around on these things in densely packed metropolitan areas? It would be mental."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Data on Tuesday showed that consumer prices in the Tokyo metropolitan area—excluding fresh food—rose 1.7% in March from a year earlier, slightly slower than February’s 1.8% increase.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
But the scale of the demonstrations — stretching from major international metropolitan hubs to small towns in rural America — signals a level of mobilization that is increasingly difficult to ignore.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Last week, Amazon said it would start providing one-hour deliveries to parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
According to one study, during a twelve-year period, the number of people returning from prison back home to “core counties”—those counties that contain the inner city of a metropolitan area—tripled.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing metropolitan
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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