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
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
In metropolitan Denmark, the row over the vast Arctic island has however not been central in the campaign.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
“Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing metropolitan
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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