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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
Despite its close proximity to the urban sprawl, the natural world permeates their forested two-acre lot, where rosemary and lavender grow, wild beehives can be found in old tree branches, and the occasional brown bear wanders past.
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John Wogan, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
As Austin’s outer bounds have grown, the urban sprawl has encroached on coyote habitat.
—Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
If design is, by definition, humans solving problems, foliage in all forms is not just a lovely-to-look-at enhancement of urban sprawl.
—Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2024
That’s because cheap oil also encourages urban sprawl.
—Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2016
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John Wogan, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
As Austin’s outer bounds have grown, the urban sprawl has encroached on coyote habitat.
—Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
If design is, by definition, humans solving problems, foliage in all forms is not just a lovely-to-look-at enhancement of urban sprawl.
—Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2024
That’s because cheap oil also encourages urban sprawl.
—Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Nationwide, state and city officials have been making preparations for the inevitable immigration crackdown.—
Rosa Flores,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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The once relatively sleepy city, long overshadowed by its neighbor Como, has now woken up—and established itself as a destination unto itself.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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This season, Juan moves from Colombia to join his fiancée Jessica, their baby son and soon-to-be stepsons in a sleepy town in Wyoming.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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What fictional town does Pretty Little Liars take place in?—
Alex Vance,
Parents,
14 Jan. 2025
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The doc sees Shakespeare and Chaucer teacher Kyle wrapping up his 50th and final year at inner city Cleveland, Ohio’s Saint Ignatius High School.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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Snoop — who founded his own Snoop League for inner city youth in Southern California and whose son played Division I football — also put on a headset on the Colorado State sideline to allegedly call some plays.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
29 Dec. 2024
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For example, managing voter registration data for national elections requires reconciling millions of entries across states, municipalities and districts, leaving room for inconsistencies.—
Brian Chidester,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Michael Lawlor, a law professor at the University of New Haven, and other attorneys contend that states and municipalities cannot be compelled to enforce the U.S. immigration laws for the federal government.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
23 Jan. 2025
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 May 2024
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Earlier this week, a giant cloud of wildfire smoke from Canada wafted into New York City, Boston, and other eastern metropolises, engulfing skylines and putting millions of people at risk from air pollution.—
Vox Staff,
Vox,
22 Jan. 2025
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As the mayor of America’s largest metropolis, Mr. Adams has a natural interest in developing a working relationship with the man poised to govern the nation.—
Dana Rubinstein,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Head to the historic downtown for fire and art demonstrations, live ice sculpture making, music, dancing and contests.—
Mindy Sink,
The Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2025
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The 2028 Games will be spread throughout Southern California and stretch as far south as Temecula — about 90 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles — and as far east as Oklahoma City, about 1,300 miles away, where softball and canoe slalom will be held.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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