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city

Definition for city

adjective as in metropolitan

noun as in large town

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For years, some residents of the city have been known to make their own bootleg wine.

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Filed in a commercial court in the city of Tournai, the lawsuit marks Belgium's first climate case brought against a multinational company by a citizen.

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My mom was a trouper on long walks in the Boston and Rome airports and a four-hour food tour in Rome, but would never travel with me again if I tried that in multiple cities!

While other workers pushed the bodies into the pit, he would stand off to one side, smoking and looking at the lights of the city.

On his second day as chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Jaime Moore criticized what he called media efforts to “smear” firefighters who responded to the worst wildfire in city history.

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

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