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metro

[me-troh] / ˈmɛ troʊ /


NOUN
subway
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Cuts to services across Metro, Ulsterbus and NI Railways are being explored under the proposals, with the company trying to make savings of £10m.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Welcome to the Washington Metro, home to the country’s most enthralling rapid transit stations, a Brutalist masterpiece with a design discipline so consistent it reads like an architectural civics lesson.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The set piece is a daring, madcap, Wes Anderson-esque romp through San Francisco all the way to the Metro Designers factory in China, where worker conditions are grim and hazardous.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

But now there are many videos of her online, from Jan. 13 of this year, when Operation Metro Surge was going strong in Minneapolis.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

Negra and her husband lived in the Metro North projects on 100th and First.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez




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