urban

Example Sentences

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China’s headline urban unemployment rate stood at 5.4% last month, edging up from February’s 5.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The Local Theatre Touring Alliance welcomed the report, which it said "provides important and timely evidence of the pressures facing touring across theatre, dance and music, particularly in venues outside major urban centres".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Given the unprecedented nature of the urban sweeps, it is difficult to compare the rate of failed cases to another time period or context.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

But in some local government and urban planning circles, the windowless establishments are seen as hogging land and creating dead zones where there ought be street life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

On their way, she passed all the full picnic tables occupied by who she guessed were people from different reserves or urban locations heavy with an Indigenous population.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith