metropolitan
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“More than half of major U.S. metropolitan markets posted year-over-year price declines in February, signaling that the housing slowdown has broadened well beyond its Sun Belt origins,” said Nicholas Godec at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
In England, providing adult social care is the responsibility of unitary authorities, metropolitan district councils, county councils and London borough councils.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
The program is also underway in the metropolitan areas of Phoenix; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The closest metropolitan area, Ahmedabad, is about an hour away.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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