metropolis
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Growing up in the metropolis of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, he decided early to become a professional footballer.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"It is still on the edge of the metropolitan area, but it is not advancing on the western side of the metropolis," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
It was part of a cross-border effort to stem the flow of as much as 30 million gallons of sewage a day from Tijuana, a border metropolis whose waste infrastructure hasn’t kept up with growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The narrative conjures meaning from the Los Angeles cityscape by fusing a hodgepodge of textbook theories about the sprawling metropolis onto the gritty reality of daily life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Tenochtitlan dazzled its invaders—it was bigger than Paris, Europe’s greatest metropolis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The city hopes that the revenues from the tax will allow the former imperial capital to remain competitive with the Nordic and Swiss metropolises.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The U.S. winners range from small cities such as Cape Coral, Fla., to major metropolises like San Francisco; many are tax havens.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the other metropolises that have welcomed Waymo, subscribers to the $10-a-month DashPass can earn a $10 discount off one Waymo ride every month.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025
Of 20 metropolises surveyed in a separate index, New York City continued to lead the pack, with an average 6.4% on-year rise in home prices in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
“The arrogance of big-city folk! You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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