as in town
a thickly settled, highly populated area
commuters who drive every day between their homes in the suburbs and their jobs in the city
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Recent Examples of city
An order of the bánh mì pate, a style of sandwich that’s a specialty of the northeastern Vietnamese city of Haiphong, comprises two petite loaves, each filled just enough—not overstuffed, not mega-smeared—with smooth, sweet, funky pork pâté fluffed up with pork-floss batting.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
The actor and producer was photographed on the balcony of the Grand Hotel Parker’s, the elegant and oldest hotel in the Italian city, enjoying the sun and swigging Acqua Panna.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 July 2025
New York has always prided itself on being a city that leads.
—Roger Cost, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
Their concerns look small in a Turkey caught up in 2023’s landmark presidential elections: Shooting on the fly on crowded city streets, Dupont and DP Thibaut Egler capture a sense of communal restlessness that chimes, in its own way, with our protagonists’ nerves and impatience for a new chapter.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 July 2025
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
The actor and producer was photographed on the balcony of the Grand Hotel Parker’s, the elegant and oldest hotel in the Italian city, enjoying the sun and swigging Acqua Panna.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 July 2025
New York has always prided itself on being a city that leads.
—Roger Cost, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
Their concerns look small in a Turkey caught up in 2023’s landmark presidential elections: Shooting on the fly on crowded city streets, Dupont and DP Thibaut Egler capture a sense of communal restlessness that chimes, in its own way, with our protagonists’ nerves and impatience for a new chapter.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for city
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Deputies responded to a residence in Hilliard, a small town northwest of Jacksonville, around 8 p.m. Thursday, but got no response from anyone inside and found multiple shooting victims upon entering, Leeper said.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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But seeing them actually here in your town, being able to talk to them, ask questions, provide that access, is going to be really cool.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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This find is the first time a Caracol king has been identified over the decades of research at the site, which was a dominant Maya metropolis before its abandonment by 900 AD.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Shanghai is the third-largest city in the world, with a population of just over 40 million, and is one of the most vibrant metropolises in the country.—
John Wogan,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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Historically, this kind of flooding, which often occurs in hilly and mountainous regions, has received far less attention than storm-surge flooding, and local municipalities tend to be less prepared than coastal towns to deal with it.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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The city has relied on three Florida statutes that allow municipalities to move an election date via ordinance, as well as a case in the city of North Miami, which similarly moved its elections to even years via a City Council vote and without voter approval a few years ago.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
21 July 2025
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“City.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/city. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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