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cities

noun as in large town

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When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.

Dental leaders barnstormed the state, and cities began to fluoridate.

You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.

The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

The endless miles of railways, the vast apparatus of the factories, the soaring structures of the cities bear easy witness to it.

How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and stretched out swords against the cities?

And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

They speak of a certain Norumbega and give the names of cities and strongholds of which to-day no trace or even report remains.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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