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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
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.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
His top priority is to end urban sprawl and support denser developments in urban areas.
Chapin, who owns a public relations firm, is an Orlando Utilities Commission board member.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 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
These early cooperatives, however, contributed to urban sprawl, which has a number of drawbacks.
—Daniela Sanjinés, The Conversation, 22 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for urban sprawl
Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
His top priority is to end urban sprawl and support denser developments in urban areas.
Chapin, who owns a public relations firm, is an Orlando Utilities Commission board member.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 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
These early cooperatives, however, contributed to urban sprawl, which has a number of drawbacks.
—Daniela Sanjinés, The Conversation, 22 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for urban sprawl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
Noun
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The impact spread quickly to neighboring communities, including the small city that shares a name with the township.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Tkachenko reported damage in at least five city districts.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Longer-range drones are also routinely used to strike towns and cities close to the front.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Several businesses were damaged, roads were left with deep cracks, and an old Roman Catholic church in nearby Daanbantayan town was also damaged, Cañete said.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Infantry, tanks, artillery advancing toward inner city Israeli army spokesperson Nadav Shoshani said Israeli forces had been operating in the periphery of Gaza City for several weeks but since the night of Monday to Tuesday large numbers of troops had begun moving towards the inner city.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
19 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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This partnership brings national visibility to local economic empowerment efforts, creating a model for how municipalities and cultural institutions can work together to advance equity.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Sep. 2025
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Bencomo was currently pursuing a man named Luis Vitali Balmaseda, who had been a police chief in the municipality surrounding Las Cañas.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 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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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
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While outsiders may imagine Hollywood’s superficial glamour, Herzog sees a metropolis teeming with artists, writers and inventors.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 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 Milford store is less likely to snarl traffic, though, since it's located about 4 miles east of downtown Milford off State Route 28, sharing a spacious lot and side street with a new Aldi store.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Elanco's gleaming headquarters stands four stories tall, with floor-to-ceiling blue windows on every side and several balconies that overlook the 75-acre campus and provide an unobstructed view of the downtown skyline.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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