urban area
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Now, engineers are looking sideways and digitally to create a new kind of interconnected urban area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
That allure, and the easy access from a huge urban area, have combined to give the relatively low-key mountain one of the worst records for death and injury in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
"That means that if a local policymaker in an urban area were to take interest in reducing exposures, they may receive the most impact per piece of infrastructure if they focus on storage," Buonocore said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025
Jacquet also sees his project as a way to reindustrialise an urban area -- with many parts of Europe feeling the strain from decades of factory closures.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
What freedom am I being offered when I must ask for permission to live in an urban area?
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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