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Noun
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Drake and a colleague launched an IPS pilot in New Hampshire in the early 1990s, and then followed with pilots in a mix of rural and urban areas, including in inner city Washington DC.—
Michael Bernick,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025 -
The library has played witness to the inner city’s woes.—
Louise Dewast,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 June 2025
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Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.—
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
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Police responded to reports that the former heiress had pushed an officer in downtown Charleston.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
21 June 2025
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From social media influencers, bloggers, YouTubers, to actual journalists and legal analysts flocking to the Southern District of New York Court in downtown Manhattan.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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“Core city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/core%20city. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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