urban
Example Sentences
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A few months later, faced with military reversals and urban unrest, Nicholas abdicated the throne.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
I lived part of my teen years in Brasília, the capital built from scratch whose architecture and urban planning have drawn equal parts fascination and disdain.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The Local Theatre Touring Alliance welcomed the report, which it said "provides important and timely evidence of the pressures facing touring across theatre, dance and music, particularly in venues outside major urban centres".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Like Pennsylvania, it’s effectively two states in one: densely populated, with highly-educated urban and suburban regions alongside vast rural areas that lean heavily conservative.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026
The incident revealed a pair of explorers still finding their way on the strange urban frontier.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Vocabulary lists containing urban
Donald Trump Inauguration Address- January 20, 2017
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