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Joe Vercellino, an award-winning music teacher who taught music in Detroit's inner city for nearly a decade and was named Detroit's Teacher of the Year in 2021, knows this reality firsthand.
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Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 4 Nov. 2025
Daniel, meanwhile, forged ties with other criminal groups in Dublin—in particular, the Hutches, who ruled the projects of the north inner city.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Infantry, tanks, artillery advancing toward inner city Israeli army spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said Israeli forces had been operating in the periphery of Gaza City for several weeks but since the night of Monday to Tuesday large numbers of troops had begun moving towards the inner city.
—Reuters, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
That day, students across Jefferson County boarded yellow school buses, with Black students headed to formerly White suburban schools, while White students were bused to formerly Black inner city schools.
—Bailey Loosemore, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
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Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 4 Nov. 2025
Daniel, meanwhile, forged ties with other criminal groups in Dublin—in particular, the Hutches, who ruled the projects of the north inner city.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Infantry, tanks, artillery advancing toward inner city Israeli army spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said Israeli forces had been operating in the periphery of Gaza City for several weeks but since the night of Monday to Tuesday large numbers of troops had begun moving towards the inner city.
—Reuters, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025
That day, students across Jefferson County boarded yellow school buses, with Black students headed to formerly White suburban schools, while White students were bused to formerly Black inner city schools.
—Bailey Loosemore, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inner city
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The backstory This is the first Edition in Southeast Asia, a new build designed by Safdie Architects that pays tribute to Singapore’s reputation as a modern garden city.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Dec. 2025
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Thank you for the warmest welcome to your garden city.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
14 Nov. 2025
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The first marches took place in downtown Tehran, with participants demonstrating against rising inflation and the falling value of the national currency, the rial.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Just south of downtown Minneapolis, Rachel Dionne Thunder is one of many members of the Indigenous community turning their wheel and pushing the peddle on patrol.—
Frankie McLister,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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And on Thursday, the investigator chased down a tip Hannan had received from one of his followers that his dog was spotted in Del Valle, an edge city in the Greater Austin area.—
Luke Chinman,
People.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Inner city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inner%20city. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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