metropolitan
Example Sentences
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The program is also underway in the metropolitan areas of Phoenix; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
"Running around on these things in densely packed metropolitan areas? It would be mental."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Instead, some developers are training their sights on smaller metropolitan areas and more rural regions—such as Wyoming.
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
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
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