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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
Oregon adopted a unique set of land use laws in the late 1960s and 1970s that helped curb urban sprawl.
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Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
These early cooperatives, however, contributed to urban sprawl, which has a number of drawbacks.
—Daniela Sanjinés, The Conversation, 22 July 2025
The 5,000-square-foot minimum lot requirement leads to inefficient use of space, urban sprawl, long commutes and high prices.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2025
If finding a soulmate in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles is a long and arduous journey, one studded with minefields erupting in confusion, anxiety and repeated dismay, then let the body lead the way.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Rob Davis, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
These early cooperatives, however, contributed to urban sprawl, which has a number of drawbacks.
—Daniela Sanjinés, The Conversation, 22 July 2025
The 5,000-square-foot minimum lot requirement leads to inefficient use of space, urban sprawl, long commutes and high prices.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2025
If finding a soulmate in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles is a long and arduous journey, one studded with minefields erupting in confusion, anxiety and repeated dismay, then let the body lead the way.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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At the same time, the White House has ordered immigration enforcement in cities around the country.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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The changes affect libraries operated by Maricopa County and not cities that operate their own libraries, such as Phoenix.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Seven miles across town, another MPS school had to delay its start date by a day.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Jarrett knew Swift and her family beforehand from seeing them around town.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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That day, students across Jefferson County boarded yellow school buses, with Black students headed to formerly White suburban schools, while White students were bused to formerly Black inner city schools.—
Bailey Loosemore,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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Medicaid serves people in every corner of this country, from inner cities to small rural towns, Democrats to Republicans.—
Anahita Dua,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
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Protesters also took to the streets in other municipalities, including Damak, Birtamod, Itahari, Biratnagar, Janakpur, Bharatpur, Pokhara, Birgunj, Butwal, Bhairahawa, Tulsipur, and Dhangadhi, according to the Kathmandu Post.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The crash happened on a highway in the Atlacomulco municipality, according to state authorities.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 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
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So, any Gotham within a contemporary film in the Batman series that's going to be authentic has to be reflective of a modern American metropolis.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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About 120 miles west of London, just over an hour by train, lies Bristol—a vast metropolis that made Afar’s annual Where to Go list in 2022.—
Lottie Gross,
AFAR Media,
29 Aug. 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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The funicular ends at the São Pedro de Alcântara stop, just above the Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara, a panoramic terrace that overlooks downtown Lisbon and its castle.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Some locations that will experience flash flooding include Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Tempe, Tempe Marketplace, Fiesta Mall, Mesa Riverview Mall, Arizona State University, downtown Mesa, Arizona Mills Mall, Papago Park and Guadalupe.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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