conurbation

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Recent Examples of conurbation It was left a ghost town, like many such European conurbations. Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 The two colleagues run into one another on the ferry to an island that’s part of the wider Oslo conurbation. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024 Sheffield, meanwhile, England’s ninth-largest population conurbation, has not produced England’s champions since the most recent of Wednesday’s four titles in 1930. Michael Walker, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024 However, this does not mean that the development of remote jobs will have no influence on the future face of major cities and conurbations. Arnaud Devigne, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 Roads, office parks, and malls line the site now, part of the conurbation known as the Arizona Sun Corridor. Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024 This was no easy task in the jumble of a vast nineteenth-century conurbation. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023 Riyadh Air, based in Saudi Arabia’s namesake capital, a conurbation of 8 million people, will commence flights in 2025, aiming to serve 100 cities by 2030. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023 L’Asile, a conurbation of 52,000 people living mostly in rural communities, was founded in the 1930s. Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conurbation
Noun
  • Millennia from now, will urban legends describe the horrific disaster that destroyed the string of American metropolises along the Pacific coast, from Chief Seattle’s Town to the City of Angels?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This Brazilian metropolis, with over one million inhabitants and located in the Amazon region, will host international leaders this November for the UN Climate Summit.
    Tarciana Medeiros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Tunnels of Moose Jaw is one of the major attractions of Saskatchewan’s fourth largest city.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Expands to the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown LA next weekend, ahead on a theatrical roadshow opening in one new city each week.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When Singh’s successor decided to make the fort taller, its shadow fell on the hermit’s home, consequently bringing destruction to the complex and surrounding towns.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The boat was intercepted off the northern coast of Venezuela, near a small fishing town called San Juan de Unare, which, in the past two decades, has become a transit point for the smuggling of cocaine and marijuana.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That includes farmers who have had sludge from water treatment plants spread on their land containing PFAS, fire departments, airports and municipalities, people who own land that was polluted by PFAS originating from another nearby property or waste facilities that accepted PFAS.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • So the city may be less affected by SB 79 than other municipalities in the county.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Reef-building corals—the engineers of myriad underwater structures—create maritime megalopolises dense with crevices and hidey-holes for fish and other sea creatures.
    Fanni Szakal, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • In the post-Soviet period, both cities had evolved into European megalopolises.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
Noun
  • In 1940, the Oakland County suburb north of Detroit officially became a city, but more than a century later, the town has maintained its small-town village charm.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Riding that unchecked wave of growth in crypto took Iza from a quiet, solitary childhood in the Midwest suburbs to a world of outlandish wealth, shady operators, and mind-boggling schemes.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Conurbation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conurbation. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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