How to Use independent city in a Sentence
independent city
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Hundreds of polling locations are set up across Virginia’s 95 counties and 38 independent cities.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2025
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But there’s a frosh girl in the Gilead faith, Daisy (Lucy Halliday), from the independent city of Toronto.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 May 2026
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Since 2018, Hialeah’s libraries operated as their own independent city department, answering directly to the mayor and council rather than sitting under a larger agency.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
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Bayfront Park Management Trust, a quasi-independent city agency previously chaired by Carollo, plans to remove a cluster of outdoor gym equipment in Maurice Ferré Park that became emblematic of a battle between Carollo and downtown residents.
—Tess Riski january 30, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
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In 2019, Patri Friedman, grandson of economist Milton Friedman and former executive director of the Seasteading Institute, incorporated the VC fund Pronomos Capital with the aim to raise independent cities on unused land in developing countries.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
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