metropolitan
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Prices dropped below year-ago levels in 27% of the more than 200 metropolitan areas the trade group examined in the first quarter.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Patients face an average wait of 31 days to secure a new doctor’s appointment, according to AMN Healthcare’s 2025 Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times, which covers major metropolitan areas.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
“More than half of major U.S. metropolitan markets posted year-over-year price declines in February, signaling that the housing slowdown has broadened well beyond its Sun Belt origins,” said Nicholas Godec at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
In England, providing adult social care is the responsibility of unitary authorities, metropolitan district councils, county councils and London borough councils.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing metropolitan
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