as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area a big, teeming metropolis where ambitious people from all over come to make their mark

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Recent Examples of metropolis Earlier this week, a giant cloud of wildfire smoke from Canada wafted into New York City, Boston, and other eastern metropolises, engulfing skylines and putting millions of people at risk from air pollution. Vox Staff, Vox, 22 Jan. 2025 As the mayor of America’s largest metropolis, Mr. Adams has a natural interest in developing a working relationship with the man poised to govern the nation. Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025 But that blissful image has been ruptured in recent days as parts of Los Angeles were engulfed in flames, reducing homes and businesses across the sprawling metropolis to smoldering heaps of ash and rubble, most calamitously in the Pacific Palisades and the community of Altadena. Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025 County officials apologized Friday after residents across the Los Angeles area continued to receive erroneous emergency alerts that urged them to prepare to evacuate, even though many were not close to any of the fires sweeping across the foothills of the sprawling metropolis. Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for metropolis 

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“Metropolis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolis. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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