core city

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for core city
Noun
  • The Blackwells began acquiring vacant lots in the inner city and turning them into lush flower patches.
    Martha Shade, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • There is a big disconnect with those living in the inner city and don’t have access to the beach. — David Mesfin In the early 1900s, Los Angeles beaches reflected the rigid racial segregation of the time.
    Natalie Preddie, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.
    Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.
    CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • Definitely going for the highest quality audiophile sound experience while still being suited for a small downtown Toronto home.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In a sometimes vivid and sometimes dense press conference in downtown LA, Nathan Hochman revealed his office is opposing efforts by the siblings to have their life sentences for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents challenged and given new trials.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Core city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/core%20city. Accessed 25 Feb. 2025.

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