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metropolitan

[me-truh-pol-i-tn] / ˌmɛ trəˈpɒl ɪ tn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning a city
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The metropolitan area will host eight matches including the championship final.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The team hopes future work will provide a clearer picture of how dangerous these secondary faults may be for the Seattle metropolitan region, home to roughly four million people.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Burnham, a former Labour government minister, has been the region's metropolitan mayor since 2017.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

A Federal Reserve paper published last year found substantial and arbitrary variation in agent commissions across metropolitan areas.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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