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metropolis

noun as in major city

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“It’s worthy of recognition in the history of Owens Valley, to show how this community stood up to this huge metropolis with lots of power and money.”

A metropolis where Little Bangladesh barely knows anything about Tehrangeles and vice versa will never truly work, no matter how much boosters claim it does.

But she somehow made her way around the busy metropolis to the Santa Monica Mountains by the summer — crossing, at least, the 5 Freeway, perhaps using an underpass, wildlife officials had said.

While his comments provoked ridicule from local lawmakers and civic leaders, they received applause from the audience of rich and largely white business figures who make up a small minority in the largely Black metropolis.

From Salon

County as a broken, crime-ridden metropolis in need of a “hard middle” D.A. who cares about reducing prison populations but still has the resolve to put the bad guys away.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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