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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.
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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
Look what is going on in Chicago and our inner cities.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
Tourists have caused traffic jams and, on busy days, have made the city almost completely inaccessible.
Alternate: Check out Split, which also has an impressive historical inner city (with fewer walls), or head to Zagreb, which is less crowded but still offers a classic Croatian experience.
—Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
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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
Look what is going on in Chicago and our inner cities.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
Tourists have caused traffic jams and, on busy days, have made the city almost completely inaccessible.
Alternate: Check out Split, which also has an impressive historical inner city (with fewer walls), or head to Zagreb, which is less crowded but still offers a classic Croatian experience.
—Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 Aug. 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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This was no downtown scene, this was Broadway and all the show people and ballplayers and serious mob guys were right there, and Franky C knew them all, from Jackie Wilson to Clay Cole to Tiny Tim.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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That total recently got a boost from Father Joe’s Villages, which converted one of its downtown shelters into a detox and sober-living program.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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 13 Nov. 2025.
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