as in cities
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 metropolises
The big story 31-year-old Aarushi Kilawat is a fashion entrepreneur from India's Jaipur, a small city with less than 5 million residents — a far cry from Indian metropolises like Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.
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Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Millennia from now, will urban legends describe the horrific disaster that destroyed the string of American metropolises along the Pacific coast, from Chief Seattle’s Town to the City of Angels?
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Jia founded the Pingyao International Film Festival in his home province of Shanxi, choosing the ancient city over modern metropolises like Beijing or Shanghai.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
But Gorman also cautioned that even if the bold ideas put forth by Musk and Bezos are realized fully, with bustling metropolises constructed among the stars, humanity will eventually need to look back toward home.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
And as those on the right have slammed the nation’s metropolises, only a tiny fraction of the biggest cities have Republican mayors, and there’s scant discussion in right-wing circles and institutions about urban policy.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 12 Aug. 2025
Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Millennia from now, will urban legends describe the horrific disaster that destroyed the string of American metropolises along the Pacific coast, from Chief Seattle’s Town to the City of Angels?
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Jia founded the Pingyao International Film Festival in his home province of Shanxi, choosing the ancient city over modern metropolises like Beijing or Shanghai.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
But Gorman also cautioned that even if the bold ideas put forth by Musk and Bezos are realized fully, with bustling metropolises constructed among the stars, humanity will eventually need to look back toward home.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
And as those on the right have slammed the nation’s metropolises, only a tiny fraction of the biggest cities have Republican mayors, and there’s scant discussion in right-wing circles and institutions about urban policy.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metropolises
Noun
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Al-Rasheed has also been a leader in urban development across Saudi Arabia and represents Saudi Arabia as a lead on Urban 20, which brings together mayors from major cities in G20 countries.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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While driving activists between cities, Liuzzo was killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan after the march.—
Dana Afana,
Freep.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Leonowicz wonders about dispensaries in border towns that are heavily dependent on marijuana consumers from other states coming to Michigan to buy cannabis, such as New Buffalo in southwest Michigan and Monroe, near the Ohio border.—
Adrienne Roberts,
Freep.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Metropolises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolises. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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