metropolitan
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Location matters too, as you say you live in a major metropolitan area.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
But although it helps AKP expand its influence in Izmir, it does not mean the party has a majority on the city's metropolitan municipal council, which remains dominated by the opposition.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security called the undertaking the “largest DHS operation ever” earlier this year on X, with an estimated 2,000 agents deployed to the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The party took 26% of the vote, which translates to 47 out of 158 seats in the metropolitan legislature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary lists containing metropolitan
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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