metropolis
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Ex-Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has spent 12 years building a Minecraft metropolis.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Shanghai made history this week: the first Asian metropolis to be invited as the city of honour to Barcelona's famously rambunctious cultural festival, La Merce.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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
Ah means tuh put mah hands tuh de plow heah, and strain every nerve tuh make dis our town de metropolis uh de state.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Around 25-30 percent of the Kazakh population live in just three cities: the capital Astana in the centre, and the southern metropolises of Almaty and Shymkent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 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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