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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
The event underscores growing concerns about extreme weather events in the Southwest, a region already contending with prolonged drought, extreme heat, and expanding urban sprawl that increases vulnerability.
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
On a societal level, bigger cars take up more public space, leaving less room for the livable, likeable city and promote urban sprawl.
—Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
The swans pose too great a threat to native species reliant on the few wetlands left in California, which has lost at least 90% of the habitats to agriculture and urban sprawl.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Oregon adopted a unique set of land use laws in the late 1960s and 1970s that helped curb urban sprawl.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
On a societal level, bigger cars take up more public space, leaving less room for the livable, likeable city and promote urban sprawl.
—Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
The swans pose too great a threat to native species reliant on the few wetlands left in California, which has lost at least 90% of the habitats to agriculture and urban sprawl.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Oregon adopted a unique set of land use laws in the late 1960s and 1970s that helped curb urban sprawl.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
Noun
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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
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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
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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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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
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Daniel, meanwhile, forged ties with other criminal groups in Dublin—in particular, the Hutches, who ruled the projects of the north inner city.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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There are skits about the precarious nature of maintaining turf in the inner city drug trade with diegetic music and shockingly sharp acting.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
30 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, the new legislation would prohibit counties and municipalities from cutting funding for law enforcement.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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That is up to local municipalities.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 May 2024
Noun
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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
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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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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
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Having shaped the skyline of downtown Dubai, Emaar Properties is looking abroad for growth, and future targets may be in the world’s two largest economies, according to Founder and Chairman Mohamed Alabbar.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The project plays a key role in SomeraRoad’s transformation of Paseo South Gulch—a five-acre pocket of downtown that blends historic architecture with a new wave of design, dining, and wellness destinations, including an Equinox gym, the Catbird Seat, Maiz de la Vida, and Carter Vintage Guitars.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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