metropolitan
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Adapting to new realities is a key part of the movie exhibition business, and in major metropolitan areas, theaters like the Alamo Drafthouse have turned moviegoing into a heavily incentivized and catered evening out.
From Salon
The terminals are scattered across the Chicago metropolitan area and connected by rail lines and roads.
Miami-Dade County manages the regional systems that make a metropolitan area of this scale work.
Manville said other U.S. metropolitan areas have much denser downtowns and a greater contrast in density with surrounding suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times
Delhi, with its sprawling metropolitan region of 30 million residents, is regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals.
From Barron's
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