metropolis
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Fifteen years earlier, he had opened the great aqueduct that carried Sierra snowmelt to the San Fernando Valley and made the metropolis possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"It is still on the edge of the metropolitan area, but it is not advancing on the western side of the metropolis," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
It was part of a cross-border effort to stem the flow of as much as 30 million gallons of sewage a day from Tijuana, a border metropolis whose waste infrastructure hasn’t kept up with growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
A consistent message emerged: Los Angeles was not a beautiful, vibrant metropolis with serious problems, but a hellhole verging on being lost for good.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
He planted the offices in the midst of this black metropolis, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Around 25-30 percent of the Kazakh population live in just three cities: the capital Astana in the centre, and the southern metropolises of Almaty and Shymkent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
About 40% of metropolises had more deaths than births, and rely on newcomers to grow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The U.S. winners range from small cities such as Cape Coral, Fla., to major metropolises like San Francisco; many are tax havens.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the other metropolises that have welcomed Waymo, subscribers to the $10-a-month DashPass can earn a $10 discount off one Waymo ride every month.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025
No kind of crazy breakthroughs, just variations on a theme: pigs with brain maps that resemble St. Louis, my couple for Noelle joined by the sweeping bridge, a family of metropolises.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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