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Recent Examples of conurbation
It was left a ghost town, like many such European conurbations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amity Shlaes,
National Review,
10 Jan. 2024
This was no easy task in the jumble of a vast nineteenth-century conurbation.
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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.
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Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
22 Aug. 2023
L’Asile, a conurbation of 52,000 people living mostly in rural communities, was founded in the 1930s.
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Washington Post,
21 Aug. 2021
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.
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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.
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Washington Post,
21 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conurbation
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The narrative conjures meaning from the Los Angeles cityscape by fusing a hodgepodge of textbook theories about the sprawling metropolis onto the gritty reality of daily life.
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The novels are a time-lapse panorama of a metropolis perpetually reshaped by its inhabitants.
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Robert Harrington will be the next mayor of the nation’s 14th largest city.
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In 2026, Goldman appears to be trailing in polls to Lander, a former city comptroller and councilman from Brooklyn.
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Meanwhile in Lebanon, airstrikes hit the southern town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, a day after Israel signed an agreement to withdraw troops from some areas.
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The governor's order gives Barnes power to restrict or prohibit fireworks displays in Utah's cities and towns, instead of leaving those decisions to the communities.
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WestCOG will conduct a feasibility study of recurring finance mechanisms for resilience, including stormwater utilities and resilience improvement districts, regionally and for municipalities in the WestCOG region.
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These fireworks can only be used by professionals with a permit obtained from the municipality where they'll be set off, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Boyu promises to be instrumental in helping Starbucks open stores in cities beyond Shanghai, Beijing, and China’s other megalopolises, while keeping costs in check.
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Reef-building corals—the engineers of myriad underwater structures—create maritime megalopolises dense with crevices and hidey-holes for fish and other sea creatures.
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The new house sat in their hometown of Gretna, Nebraska, a suburb of Omaha.
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One person died after a crash involving an Illinois Department of Transportation vehicle on I-57 in the south Chicago suburbs early Saturday morning.
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“Conurbation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conurbation. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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