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Recent Examples of conurbation
The two colleagues run into one another on the ferry to an island that’s part of the wider Oslo conurbation.
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
However, this does not mean that the development of remote jobs will have no influence on the future face of major cities and conurbations.
—Arnaud Devigne, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
Roads, office parks, and malls line the site now, part of the conurbation known as the Arizona Sun Corridor.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
This was no easy task in the jumble of a vast nineteenth-century conurbation.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
Riyadh Air, based in Saudi Arabia’s namesake capital, a conurbation of 8 million people, will commence flights in 2025, aiming to serve 100 cities by 2030.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
L’Asile, a conurbation of 52,000 people living mostly in rural communities, was founded in the 1930s.
—Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
Normally this takes an hour and 40 minutes, moving across the greater Los Angeles/Orange County conurbation, but this trip...
—WSJ, 24 Mar. 2020
Dubai, a remarkable city-emirate grown rich on the foresight of its rulers and the wits of its inhabitants—both native and immigrant—is much the more complex of the two modern conurbations.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
However, this does not mean that the development of remote jobs will have no influence on the future face of major cities and conurbations.
—Arnaud Devigne, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
Roads, office parks, and malls line the site now, part of the conurbation known as the Arizona Sun Corridor.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
This was no easy task in the jumble of a vast nineteenth-century conurbation.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
Riyadh Air, based in Saudi Arabia’s namesake capital, a conurbation of 8 million people, will commence flights in 2025, aiming to serve 100 cities by 2030.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
L’Asile, a conurbation of 52,000 people living mostly in rural communities, was founded in the 1930s.
—Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
Normally this takes an hour and 40 minutes, moving across the greater Los Angeles/Orange County conurbation, but this trip...
—WSJ, 24 Mar. 2020
Dubai, a remarkable city-emirate grown rich on the foresight of its rulers and the wits of its inhabitants—both native and immigrant—is much the more complex of the two modern conurbations.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conurbation
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The ancient metropolis is where cylinder seals were invented and used for administrative purposes.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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But for those who aren’t from Senegal’s capital city, there’s luckily no shortage of restaurants serving homestyle cooking and cuisine inspired by groups from Central Africa to Western Europe that have left a cultural imprint on or established new homes in the coastal metropolis.Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
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Returning from larger stomping grounds to run one of the state’s most diverse cities is not always the smoothest transition, political experts have said.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The glittering city is back Wednesday-Jan. 12, 2025.John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
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The Ravel makes several stops in idyllic medieval towns along the Rhône, including Avignon, Viviers, and Arles – the lovely Roman town where Vincent van Gogh created some of his most memorable work.James Rampton, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Meander around the small coastal pueblos, or towns, and allow time for spontaneous discovery.Zachary Rabinor, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2024
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Depending on the municipality, polling places in Vermont can open between 5 and 10 a.m.Liam Quinn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Different municipalities allow some noncitizens, such as permanent residents, to vote on local issues.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Reef-building corals—the engineers of myriad underwater structures—create maritime megalopolises dense with crevices and hidey-holes for fish and other sea creatures.Fanni Szakal, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
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In the post-Soviet period, both cities had evolved into European megalopolises.Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
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All the ballots are in Cobb County, a northern suburb of Atlanta that voted for Joe Biden in 2020.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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And yet on the first day of early voting, in Weaverville, a suburb of Asheville, the parking lot of one voting site—the Weaverville Community Center, in Buncombe County—was full, and the line snaked around the block, almost a full hour before voting had even begun.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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