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Recent Examples of inner city
The library has played witness to the inner city’s woes.
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Louise Dewast, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
Brigitte Segal, president of Les Studios de Paris, and Peninsula Pictures producer John Bernard will speak on Studios de Paris and its facilities as the largest and newest inner city studio complex.
—William Earl, Variety, 12 May 2025
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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Louise Dewast, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
Brigitte Segal, president of Les Studios de Paris, and Peninsula Pictures producer John Bernard will speak on Studios de Paris and its facilities as the largest and newest inner city studio complex.
—William Earl, Variety, 12 May 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inner city
Noun
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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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Just a few blocks east, the National Weather Service recorded 5 inches of rain falling in an hour and a half, as a thunderstorm stalled over downtown and nearby neighborhoods.—
William Tong,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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With its sweeping views of the Douro River, beyond which sits Porto’s historic downtown, Tivoli Kopke Porto Gaia invites guests to enjoy Porto over a glass of its signature port wine rather than hustle through it.—
Caroline Tell,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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“Inner city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inner%20city. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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