metropolitan area
Example Sentences
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In the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolitan area, dense development and heavy tourism make the challenge especially demanding.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
In Tirana's metropolitan area alone, there are almost four hundred dental clinics – and most of them are in the city centre.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Active listings in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metropolitan area fell 7.8% in June as compared with a year ago, according to a separate report by real-estate platform Realtor.com.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
On Friday, attention turns to August consumer price figures for the Tokyo metropolitan area that will indicate if higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict are filtering through to broader consumer costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“We’re more of an uprising. Our reach stretches across the country—there’s a group for every metropolitan area that exists, and regional overseers for the Midwest, South, and East.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
