as in town
a thickly settled, highly populated area
commuters who drive every day between their homes in the suburbs and their jobs in the city
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Recent Examples of city
Photo : Michael Biondo The living room has city views.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
The letter follows another inspector general report released late last month that dinged Johnson and past mayors for failing to properly log information about gifts given to top city leaders.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Residents and event planners in the Point Loma-Ocean Beach area are, like many others throughout San Diego, bracing for city fee increases that could go into effect in the next few months — some as early as April.
—Jeanne Rawdin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
This includes decisions big and small — from burning a city to the ground or keeping it intact, or choosing to bring an item back to a shop, only for the owner to name it after you in gratitude.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
The letter follows another inspector general report released late last month that dinged Johnson and past mayors for failing to properly log information about gifts given to top city leaders.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Residents and event planners in the Point Loma-Ocean Beach area are, like many others throughout San Diego, bracing for city fee increases that could go into effect in the next few months — some as early as April.
—Jeanne Rawdin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
This includes decisions big and small — from burning a city to the ground or keeping it intact, or choosing to bring an item back to a shop, only for the owner to name it after you in gratitude.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for city
Noun
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The millions of gallons of waste that the pigs generated each year stank horribly and polluted the air and water, turning an otherwise pleasant town into a pigsty.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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Nome, a Gold Rush town, is just south of the Arctic Circle and is known as the ending point of the 1,000-mile (1,610-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.—
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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As if the year of the dragon wasn’t finished with us, January 2025 in Los Angeles brought the kind of sudden devastation that could force a postapocalyptic metropolis such as this to reacquaint itself with God, only to declare God dead again as existential crisis demands.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2025
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In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like possibility. Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 accelerated its rise as a dominant metropolis.—
Emily Badger,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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In December, more than 70 area residents signed a petition requesting an election to make Starbase its own municipality.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
14 Feb. 2025
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In 2001 the licence was renewed, allowing the building to continue to operate as a hotel, and in 2016 an extra floor was added without the necessary permissions from the local municipality.—
Emily Wither,
The Dial,
13 Feb. 2025
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“City.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/city. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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