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Noun
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But the Defender is overpriced and an inefficient inner city and suburbia dweller.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025 -
Colleges pay almost no income taxes and generally avoid paying property taxes even though their vast tracts of valuable land are often in or near struggling inner cities.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
12 Mar. 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
Noun
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Sun Sentinel New condo tower, rising 46 stories in downtown Fort Lauderdale, to be tallest in town The 46-story tower, dubbed Andare Residences, is expected to open in 2027.—
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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Meanwhile, Athena is in downtown Los Angeles calling in a high-rise building collapse that’s happened before her very eyes.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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“Core city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/core%20city. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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