urban center
Example Sentences
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New York City ended the century as a consolidated, five-county urban center with a population of 3.4 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Downtown Seattle has three distinct advantages that any urban center would envy.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
“One of the lessons from those years,” Mr. Hulen said, “was you don’t have to live in a big urban center to expect extraordinary things from your local newsroom.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
It’s a $200-million, 50-mile-long pipeline system that would move water from the California Aqueduct in California City — over arid desert mountains — to a storage tank in the urban center of Ridgecrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
