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metropolises

noun

plural of metropolis

as in cities

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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Recent Examples of metropolises Copenhagen topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s most livable cities for the second year in a row, though Chinese metropolises made the largest gains. — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 8 July 2026 The party often endorses the same candidates as the DSA and is readying to target more mayoral offices in the country’s biggest metropolises this fall and in 2028. — Matt Brown, Fortune, 20 June 2026 The party often endorses the same candidates as the DSA and is readying to target more mayoral offices in the country's biggest metropolises this fall and in 2028. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 But with thousands of communities, ranging from small towns to bustling metropolises, choosing your next home in the Lone Star State can be overwhelming. — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026 But the reality of finding quality work in one of America’s top 30 metropolises is more complicated, and statistics only tell one side of the story. — Keonna Yearwood-Branch, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2026 This will not only strengthen the state’s demand for more power and fresh water for rural areas and major metropolises, but create thousands of new and needed jobs. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026 As one of the world’s great metropolises, Tokyo takes its exalted status very seriously. — Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026 From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolises, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026

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Others are already moving confidently through modern cities, studying, working and shaping lives increasingly separate from traditional expectations.

— PhotoVogue, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Despite their apparent effectiveness at deterring speeding, cities have been slow to embrace rest in red.

— Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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At least 165 people have been killed, and hundreds more are missing after catastrophic floods swept through towns and valleys along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
Natural Disasters Hundreds of people are dead, and at least 1,400 are missing, after a massive wall of water crashed through towns in Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

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