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to accustom to the ways of the city
every September the city of Boston urbanizes a new crop of college students from small towns across the country
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Recent Examples of urbanized
Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
The exception will be over urbanized areas of the Northeast where a period of heavy rain along and ahead of the associated cold front Thursday afternoon into Thursday evening may result in isolated urban runoff issues and where recent leaf fall has clogged drainage.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
As America grew more urbanized, the options for mayhem at times became more dangerous, such as setting fires or pedestrian tripwires.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Opposed by local governments and neighborhood groups, the contentious bill went through 13 separate rounds of amendments that limited the measure’s reach to just eight highly urbanized counties and select transportation stops.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
The urbanized third of the island has adapted to tourism, with many traditional houses converted into short-term accommodation for the growing number of tourists escaping the Costa Blanca buzz.
—Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
But many dissidents felt profoundly ambivalent toward a society that, despite having become better educated and more urbanized, was also more dependent than ever on the state.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The agreement will ensure the land is never developed and remains a refuge of natural beauty in the urbanized county, River Field President and CEO Kristin Faurest said.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Japan has long had a declining population, and that is increasingly urbanized in a handful of dense metro areas.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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For the most part, these blueprints have been geared at spurring growth and unity as the nation transformed from a rural, agrarian economy to an urbanized, developed powerhouse.
—Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
The exception will be over urbanized areas of the Northeast where a period of heavy rain along and ahead of the associated cold front Thursday afternoon into Thursday evening may result in isolated urban runoff issues and where recent leaf fall has clogged drainage.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
As America grew more urbanized, the options for mayhem at times became more dangerous, such as setting fires or pedestrian tripwires.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Opposed by local governments and neighborhood groups, the contentious bill went through 13 separate rounds of amendments that limited the measure’s reach to just eight highly urbanized counties and select transportation stops.
—Calmatters, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
The urbanized third of the island has adapted to tourism, with many traditional houses converted into short-term accommodation for the growing number of tourists escaping the Costa Blanca buzz.
—Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
But many dissidents felt profoundly ambivalent toward a society that, despite having become better educated and more urbanized, was also more dependent than ever on the state.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The agreement will ensure the land is never developed and remains a refuge of natural beauty in the urbanized county, River Field President and CEO Kristin Faurest said.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2025
Japan has long had a declining population, and that is increasingly urbanized in a handful of dense metro areas.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanized
urban
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Experts say this is partly because bears are increasingly venturing out of their traditional habitats and into urban areas in search of food.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Despite the ambiguity, Reagan used his urban myth to make welfare fraud a hot-button issue en route to an eventual election win in 1980.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Urbanized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanized. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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