metro

Example Sentences

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In the first eight months of 2025, the Los Angeles metropolitan area authorized slightly fewer new housing units than the Austin, Texas, metro, despite having five times the population, according to census data.

From The Wall Street Journal

Boston’s biotech sector, long a vital economic engine for one of America’s wealthiest metro areas, is sputtering.

From The Wall Street Journal

Over the past few years, India has built shiny airports, multi-lane national highways and metro train networks.

From BBC

The metro area was expanding in every direction except West.

From The Wall Street Journal

All these tactics, along with many others, are being used by ordinary citizens at the grassroots level throughout the country in cities, downtown metro areas and residential neighborhoods.

From Salon