as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area
a big, teeming metropolis where ambitious people from all over come to make their mark
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The ancient metropolis is where cylinder seals were invented and used for administrative purposes.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
But for those who aren’t from Senegal’s capital city, there’s luckily no shortage of restaurants serving homestyle cooking and cuisine inspired by groups from Central Africa to Western Europe that have left a cultural imprint on or established new homes in the coastal metropolis.
—Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
When Reuss was a small child, his family moved from Dolina to Vienna along with hundreds of thousands of other immigrants from the empire’s distant outposts, all landing in the imperial metropolis as the 19th century came to a close.
—Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
The metropolis is located at the intersection of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in southwest-central China.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
But for those who aren’t from Senegal’s capital city, there’s luckily no shortage of restaurants serving homestyle cooking and cuisine inspired by groups from Central Africa to Western Europe that have left a cultural imprint on or established new homes in the coastal metropolis.
—Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
When Reuss was a small child, his family moved from Dolina to Vienna along with hundreds of thousands of other immigrants from the empire’s distant outposts, all landing in the imperial metropolis as the 19th century came to a close.
—Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
The metropolis is located at the intersection of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in southwest-central China.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Metropolis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolis. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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