urban spread
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The signs this was no ordinary outbreak - the panic, the health workers’ deaths, and the urban spread of the virus - were there from the beginning.
From Washington Times • Mar. 20, 2015
The signs this was no ordinary outbreak — the panic, the health workers' deaths, and the urban spread of the virus — were there from the beginning.
From US News • Mar. 20, 2015
It is home to a signature cemetery more lushly inviting than the urban spread around it, a place where a 22-foot tower of wooden beer pallets is an official San Fernando Valley cultural landmark.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 1990
Behind it, Battersea Park appeared as a square of dense green bushes and trees that were making a last stand, fighting back the urban spread.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
