core city

noun

Definition of core citynext
as in inner city

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  1. inner city
  2. garden city
  3. downtown
Noun
  • As the process progresses, the system experiences a successive reduction in inner city responses up to and including the end of the summoning process: who physically shows up at court to serve.
    Harry Weller, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Bob Parsons Net Worth: $3.9 billion Parsons grew up poor in inner city Baltimore.
    Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of inner city
Noun
  • Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.
    Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.
    CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
Definition of garden city
Noun
  • The 2028 Games will be spread throughout Southern California and stretch as far south as Temecula — about 90 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles — and as far east as Oklahoma City, about 1,300 miles away, where softball and canoe slalom will be held.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Los Angeles is one of the pillars of the cannabis industry with one of the largest concentration of sales and some of the most important grows within 200 miles of downtown LA.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of downtown
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