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Recent Examples of municipality In a report published on Wednesday about Melissa, the Office of Civil Protection said that the fall of a tree had led to the death of a septuagenarian in the municipality of Marigot in the Southeast regional department. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025 The Nordic island has just confirmed the discovery of mosquitoes in the municipality of Kjós. Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025 Much of what makes up the third largest municipality in the state by land, however, is corn. Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025 One reason for the confusion over the trash bill is that many local municipalities, like Chula Vista, have a separate bill for a private hauler not connected to property taxes. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for municipality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for municipality
Noun
  • In the show, Marshall says his father moved to Eerie to study it as the most normal city in the United States.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Originally an agricultural town, cemeteries began to take root in Colma after a 1901 ordinance banned new burials within San Francisco’s city limits, a decision driven by limited real estate and a booming population.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Mulroney, who grew up in a small Quebec town, had an ideological affinity with the emerging trends of privatization and deregulation in 1980s Anglo-American conservatism.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This Brazilian metropolis, with over one million inhabitants and located in the Amazon region, will host international leaders this November for the UN Climate Summit.
    Tarciana Medeiros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Municipality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/municipality. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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