asphalt jungle

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Recent Examples of asphalt jungle Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle! Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024 But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024 But Honk does understand concrete’s importance in the asphalt jungle. Jim Radcliffe, Orange County Register, 3 May 2024 Explore our new section Ramirez was entranced by this fleeting glimpse of adaptation by tropical species in one of the world’s greatest asphalt jungles. Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for asphalt jungle
Noun
  • Read Next West Ada ID bill would let cities fire library directors.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Yes, but: Local restaurant owners can't yet make their monthly meals tax payments via the portal (though that feature is in the works, city spokesperson Ross Catrow tells Axios).
    Karri Peifer, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Eden Vale, Washington, is the sort of solidly middle-class, carefully diverse, generally happy small town that probably only really exists in TV shows but tends to drive a whole lot of them, from Gilmore Girls to Schitt’s Creek to Resident Alien.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Thousands uprooted by the war in Lebanon have been unable to reach towns occupied by Israel, but some have tried anyway.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • After an introduction from host Trevor Noah, the camera cut to the stage area of the Crypto.com Arena, which was suddenly transformed into the hills and canyons surrounding the California metropolis.
    James Factora, Them, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Romero split her childhood between the sprawling metropolis of Houston and the remote Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Asphalt jungle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asphalt%20jungle. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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