metro

Definition of metronext

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Recent Examples of metro Early voting begins Saturday for the Georgia’s primary runoffs in some metro Atlanta counties. Chris Joyner, AJC.com, 5 June 2026 The metro Atlanta senator, who represents Senate District 44, made the announcement on a video posted to Facebook on Thursday. Dan Raby, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026 On June 2 almost 3 million protestors took to the streets in Istanbul alone, about the entire metro population of Denver. Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026 Surely Chicago, with a metro population of 9 million, can support 14 daily frequencies to destinations of 400,000-plus less than 150 miles away — especially when trains to both destinations can use the same track for the first 114 miles. F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for metro
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metro
Adjective
  • Orlando sits near the bottom among major metropolitan areas in wages while simultaneously facing one of the nation’s most serious shortages of affordable housing for its lowest-income residents.
    Dan Bray, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The result could give engineers a useful platform for developing quantum networks beyond metropolitan areas.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Long considered the gateway to Spain, Madrid is a vibrant, cosmopolitan European capital that is steeped in rich history, world-class art and a lively cultural scene.
    Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • But, outside of cosmopolitan sections of Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Haifa, the liberalism that fuelled his humor couldn’t be taken for granted.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Metro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metro. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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