metropolitan

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Data on Tuesday showed that consumer prices in the Tokyo metropolitan area—excluding fresh food—rose 1.7% in March from a year earlier, slightly slower than February’s 1.8% increase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

But the scale of the demonstrations — stretching from major international metropolitan hubs to small towns in rural America — signals a level of mobilization that is increasingly difficult to ignore.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

In metropolitan Denmark, polling stations close at 8:00 pm, with exit polls expected to be published just after.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

I love L.A. because you can surround yourself with trees and gardens and kind of pretend that you’re not living in a giant metropolitan area.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel