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"Other studies support this idea, finding that people living in urban areas have less diverse guts than people living in remote traditional communities. \u2014 Sarah Sloat, NBC News , 30 June 2022",
"But what of the vast swaths of America, outside urban areas, that don\u2019t attract that kind of investment or fresh thinking",
"Yet compared with urban areas, rural areas tend to have less access to air conditioning, health resources and other tools that could combat heat dangers. \u2014 Heather Randell, The Conversation , 28 June 2022",
"However, many members of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. have heretofore felt safest in large urban areas and some of the largest cities have very high costs of living. \u2014 Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The problem is there just aren\u2019t enough urban areas in Iowa to offset the losses elsewhere, even as the cities grow while rural areas depopulate. \u2014 Ben Jacobs, The New Republic , 28 June 2022",
"In 2019, the Federal Communications Commission reported that only 65 percent of those living on rural, tribal lands had access to broadband internet, compared to 99 percent of housing units in urban areas of the country. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Every Town\u2019s research found that 92% of all hospitalizations involving children with firearm injuries happen in urban areas, and that 50% of children wounded by gunfire experience a lifelong disability. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"Buschatzke compared the situation to what central Arizonans faced in 1980, when the Legislature approved groundwater protections for urban areas around Phoenix and Tucson. \u2014 Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic , 27 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Other studies support this idea, finding that people living in urban areas have less diverse guts than people living in remote traditional communities. \u2014 Sarah Sloat, NBC News , 30 June 2022",
"But what of the vast swaths of America, outside urban areas, that don\u2019t attract that kind of investment or fresh thinking",
"Yet compared with urban areas, rural areas tend to have less access to air conditioning, health resources and other tools that could combat heat dangers. \u2014 Heather Randell, The Conversation , 28 June 2022",
"However, many members of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. have heretofore felt safest in large urban areas and some of the largest cities have very high costs of living. \u2014 Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"The problem is there just aren\u2019t enough urban areas in Iowa to offset the losses elsewhere, even as the cities grow while rural areas depopulate. \u2014 Ben Jacobs, The New Republic , 28 June 2022",
"In 2019, the Federal Communications Commission reported that only 65 percent of those living on rural, tribal lands had access to broadband internet, compared to 99 percent of housing units in urban areas of the country. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Every Town\u2019s research found that 92% of all hospitalizations involving children with firearm injuries happen in urban areas, and that 50% of children wounded by gunfire experience a lifelong disability. \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 27 June 2022",
"Buschatzke compared the situation to what central Arizonans faced in 1980, when the Legislature approved groundwater protections for urban areas around Phoenix and Tucson. \u2014 Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic , 27 June 2022"
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"For example, one urban district with high student poverty and a large student population showed 84% of students passing the Third Grade Reading Guarantee from 2016 to 2017. \u2014 cleveland , 1 June 2022",
"The site will become a new urban district named Hortus after Floriade shuts down in October, 2022. \u2014 Lea Lane, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Dearborn, a large urban district bordering Detroit, took another path. \u2014 Koby Levin, Detroit Free Press , 14 Mar. 2022",
"An immigrant from Portugal and a former day laborer-turned-science teacher, Mr. Carvalho was lauded by school-board members as an administrator with both classroom experience and expertise running a large, urban district . \u2014 Ben Chapman, WSJ , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Central is part of Phoenix Union High School District, a large urban district in which 81% of students are Latino, many are refugees, and more than half speak a primary language other than English at home. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 18 Nov. 2021",
"But some southern Arizona observers already were concerned at how the draft maps indicate that north Tucson could join a more urban district that reaches almost to Phoenix. \u2014 Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic , 6 Oct. 2021",
"Jawando proposed creating an urban district corporation instead of a BID that would have more representation from business stakeholders. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 July 2021",
"San Diego is the country\u2019s eighth largest urban district . \u2014 Anissa Durham, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 July 2021"
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"The bad guy here is known simply as the Grabber, a child-snatching psychopath of the sort found in urban legend and, unfortunately, on the front pages of newspapers. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"That\u2019s another urban legend about the dissension on the choice of song. \u2014 Pat Saperstein, Variety , 14 Feb. 2022",
"But talk of the character inspiring violent games and actions is something of an urban legend . \u2014 Dani Di Placido, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"An urban legend about a girl in a communion dress brought to the big screen in this revenge thriller. \u2014 Emilio Mayorga, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"That urban legend is really cruel and unfair to Marisa. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 7 Mar. 2022",
"As the urban legend goes, those driving vehicles painted red tend to receive the most speeding tickets. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
"The urban legend that frequent cuts make hair grow faster is simply untrue. \u2014 Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire , 22 Oct. 2021",
"An urban legend arose among residents about a murderous supernatural creature with a hook for a hand; and, yes, the hook was part of the murderousness. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Aug. 2021"
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"The dialogue is witty and urbane .",
"a gentlemanly and urbane host of elegant dinner parties",
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"Jordan's daily first-person ruminations \u2014 somewhere between the urbane absurdity of David Sedaris and front-porch folksy of Garrison Keillor \u2014 proved to be popular. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 23 June 2022",
"But surely the urbane author of the TLS\u2019s back page attended university",
"The paralysis of China\u2019s richest city has astounded its urbane residents, who are normally spoiled for choice with 100,000 restaurants but are now scrounging for food. \u2014 James T. Areddy, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Gailani, a onetime mujahideen fighter against the Soviets, is now a rotund, urbane man in his sixties. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Ty, an urbane urbanite, has to deal with tent poles and bugs; Stephen is of a generation not necessarily familiar with discussing and exploring their feelings with their grown kid. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Paradoxically, Prohibition gave drinking an urbane cachet. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 2 Jan. 2022",
"His swift action was all the more surprising because Tokayev was widely seen as an urbane technocrat still beholden to Nazarbaev, who hand-picked him as his successor in 2019. \u2014 Tim Lister, CNN , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Many reflect the perilous reality of living in Brooklyn today and the Bronx yesterday; others, the urbane fantasy. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021"
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"The winning team is led by Bas Smets, a Belgian landscape architect, and includes GRAU, a French architecture and urbanism studio, and Neufville-Gayet, a French architecture agency. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"These appeal to people for reasons in addition to not having to buy gas, said Sara Jensen Carr, an assistant professor of architecture, urbanism , and landscape at Northeastern University. \u2014 Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"To them, bikes were not symbols of hip urbanism but of unwelcome intrusion\u2014particularly by women riders whose clothes offended the community\u2019s religious mandate of strict modesty. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Beery, The Atlantic , 31 May 2022",
"Previous examples of urbanism in the Amazon include the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon where Heckenberger works with the Kuikuro Nation. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"This designation strips residents of the rights associated with being a tenant, explained Marques Vestal, an assistant professor of critical Black urbanism at UCLA and a member of LATU. \u2014 Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic , 19 May 2022",
"On some subtle, subliminal level, the mall-developer-turned-candidate is selling the Grove\u2019s faux urbanism . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"The project shows the topography of these places in a way that reflects the individual style and fascination for the urbanism of Waras. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"If there is one aspect of Southern California design this stadium could have used less of, it\u2019s the urbanism around it. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Though the pandemic may have tainted city life for some, most urbanists will tell you that contrary to popular conception, urban density isn\u2019t the problem. \u2014 Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic , 9 June 2020",
"And urbanists fear the temporary soccer fields could interfere with future plans to possibly remove the interstate. \u2014 Dallas News , 22 May 2020",
"And despite assurances from transportation officials, urbanists fear the soccer fields could interfere with future plans to possibly remove the interstate. \u2014 Dallas News , 27 May 2020",
"In that shift, urbanists see a chance to save city dwellers not just from the sweep of a pandemic, but from the auto-centric culture that has dominated urban life for decades. \u2014 Alex Davies, Wired , 13 Apr. 2020",
"Michael Sorkin, legendary architect, urbanist , and critic died of complications from Covid-19 in New York City on March 26, as his studio confirmed. \u2014 Anne Quito, Quartz , 28 Mar. 2020",
"In any case, the house becomes not less important, as some urbanists suggest, but more so\u2014not only as a safe haven but a place of work. \u2014 Joel Kotkin, Fortune , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Such stories delight urbanists , who want to make LA less dependent on the car. \u2014 The Economist , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Solving what ails American cities also requires urbanists and activists to acknowledge that not all real-estate development is automatically bad. \u2014 Michael Kimmelman, New York Times , 28 Jan. 2020"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"El Santo\u2019s menu reflects the urbanity of Mexico City. \u2014 Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant , 7 May 2022",
"The chef says he was lured to the Watermark by the promise of creative control and the opportunity to bring some urbanity to the suburbs. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
"That careful dance between subdued and remote, classic Maine and urbanity , is also winding its way into neighboring coastal villages, and settling in among the area\u2019s working fishing fleets, general stores, and no-frills lobster pounds. \u2014 Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 13 Sep. 2021",
"This Thursday, elected officials from across the Bay Area are likely to approve a 30-year, $1.4 trillion plan that aims to turn our region into nothing less than an international model of equitable urbanity . \u2014 John King, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Oct. 2021",
"Ikebukuro \u2014 a bustling hub of Japanese urbanity and pop culture in central Tokyo \u2014 has become the unofficial center of gachapon culture, with the machines spilling out of seemingly every storefront. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Oct. 2021",
"The ambient, Brubekian theme music (composed by a musician with the gloriously appropriate name of Champ Champagne), conspicuously placed obj\u00e8ts and half-empty wine wall implied a sort of refinement and urbanity that was more indicated than real. \u2014 Courtney Lichterman, Robb Report , 3 June 2021",
"Handsome but approachable, Mr. Segal brought an natural, modern urbanity to the screen, representing a change from the studio-polished personas of an older generation of Hollywood actors. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Mar. 2021",
"There are few activities more democratic and astonishing than looking up into a night sky, even when ensconced in the murky depths of urbanity . \u2014 Leslie Pariseau, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 4 Mar. 2021"
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": the quality or state of being urbanized or the process of becoming urbanized":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The labor is intense, manual and seemingly at odds with the aesthetic of what is being built, which belongs to the age of machines, jet travel, modern democracy and rapid urbanization . \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"India\u2019s cement sector has significant room to grow, Adani Group said in a statement late Sunday, pointing to the country\u2019s rapid urbanization . \u2014 P.r. Venkat, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"Conflicts over water are becoming more common across the globe as supplies come under increasing pressure from climate change, urbanization and population growth. \u2014 Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Church attendance declined through the long march of urbanization and capitalism, but Britain also incubated the Catholicizing revival of the Oxford Movement. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Under Stalin, Belarus underwent rapid industrialization, urbanization and Russification. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"This includes extreme and multidimensional poverty, inequality, informality, gender inequity, cultural and language diversity, rapid urbanization and weak governance, and how these intersect with climate change. \u2014 Nina Hunter, Quartz , 21 June 2021",
"Worldwide, the prevalence of these conditions is rising alongside increasing urbanization and industrialization, particularly in Arab and Asian countries. \u2014 Kate Siber, Outside Online , 25 Mar. 2021",
"Intensive agriculture, widespread use of pesticides, pollution caused by waste, new diseases and pests, urbanization , and climate change. \u2014 Gil Press, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
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"every September the city of Boston urbanizes a new crop of college students from small towns across the country",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Just like any other civilization that chose to urbanize , the Romans were up against a problem: What to do with all this waste",
"As the area continues to grow and urbanize , the amount of impervious surfaces like streets and parking lots increases, Simonsen said. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 July 2021",
"Some people didn\u2019t want to urbanize the city, preferring that money be spent on roadways. \u2014 Elizabeth Findell, WSJ , 27 Dec. 2020",
"But the tanker industry might also be an early illustration of how parts of the private sector stand to profit from a warming and fast- urbanizing world. \u2014 Peter Schwartzstein, New York Times , 11 Jan. 2020",
"However, although Vietnam is urbanizing , almost two-thirds of its population still live in rural areas. \u2014 Sarah Lazarus, CNN , 6 Apr. 2020",
"While Manhattan was urbanizing , Queens, a patchwork of commercial nurseries, was more pastoral. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Mar. 2020",
"At the same time, the world population is growing and urbanizing rapidly. \u2014 Alexis Benveniste, CNN , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Now, the rapidly urbanizing county is beginning a discussion that could result in a change to that agreement. \u2014 Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2019"
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": a study dealing with specialized problems of cities (such as planning, education, sociology, and politics)":[]
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"efforts to stop urban sprawl",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Entering the lobby space from the urban sprawl is like peering into a kaleidoscope. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Quer\u00e9taro is among Mexico\u2019s quietest and safest urban centers, one in which a small-town colonial charm mixes with a modern urban sprawl of industrial and economic activity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Although other satellites track urban sprawl from space, these spectral fingerprints could reveal just how much expansion is attributable, for instance, to housing versus asphalt. \u2014 Megan I. Gannon, Scientific American , 21 June 2022",
"Chinese planners hope to merge nine cities in the region to create a 26,000 square kilometer urban sprawl 26 times larger than Greater London. \u2014 Ben Jones, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"Efficient city planning and land use can reduce travel demand and shift transportation modes, from cars to public transit, through strategies that avoid urban sprawl and disincentivize personal cars. \u2014 Alan Jenn, The Conversation , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The urban sprawl of Southern California suddenly feels very far away; there is a boundary to it after all. \u2014 Emily Witt, The New Yorker , 3 May 2022",
"Construction has begun on what is billed as the world\u2019s largest wildlife crossing for mountain lions and other animals caught in Southern California\u2019s urban sprawl . \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The darkroom and the colony grounds were the vision of photographer and muralist Roderick Sykes, who, in 1969 at the age of 18, moved in with the mission to create a thriving creative enclave within the urban sprawl . \u2014 Evangeline Barrosse, Los Angeles Times , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"an area undergoing urban renewal",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then, the destruction of the area began in the 1960s, through the combination of an ongoing urban renewal project and construction of the North-South freeway. \u2014 Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 Apr. 2022",
"The study assessed the financial loss from urban renewal in Linnentown, a Black community displaced in the 1960s to create student housing. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The neighborhood fell victim to the same brand of urban renewal that upended many communities of color in the 1950s and 1960s. \u2014 Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com , 25 Feb. 2022",
"However, the bridge proposal could stifle urban renewal plans, the mayor said. \u2014 NBC News , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Most of San Antonio\u2019s original horse tethers and carriage stones have been lost to urban renewal and expansion, not to mention more than a century of the automobile in the Alamo City. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 16 Feb. 2022",
"Construction is being funded with about $3 million in urban renewal funds from the city of Fairview. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Like most urban renewal projects, Bjorvika has courted controversy. \u2014 Deborah Dunn, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Before the Goose could open, Clark got a city letter saying the Spatenhaus would be torn down for urban renewal . \u2014 oregonlive , 1 Feb. 2022"
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"Chinlund and Reeves were excited that this journey saw Bruce Wayne as an urbanite . \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Ty, an urbane urbanite , has to deal with tent poles and bugs; Stephen is of a generation not necessarily familiar with discussing and exploring their feelings with their grown kid. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 6 Feb. 2022",
"Former urbanite Lee has slowly gotten used to their lives on the farm over the past six years. \u2014 Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Haramaty says one of her proudest achievements is converting her late father from a detached urbanite into a mothing fan. \u2014 Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 July 2021",
"Like my former self, a childless urbanite perhaps overly fond of a bottomless mimosa brunch, the pre-maternal rat will always choose eating snacks over hanging out with rat pups. \u2014 Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Jake played the part of a well-heeled, physically fit urbanite obsessed with killing a bear. \u2014 Hal Herring, Field & Stream , 27 Dec. 2020",
"Driving around southwestern Michigan with Kolberg in his pickup on a hot August afternoon, across a landscape planed by glaciers, even a lifelong urbanite could spot the farms that had planted cover crops. \u2014 Tim Folger, National Geographic , 17 Nov. 2020",
"Something for the tabletop is equally ideal: while families usually have hand-me-down linens and placemats for special occasions, a young urbanite likely hasn\u2019t made such an investment. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 2 Nov. 2020"
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"every September the city of Boston urbanizes a new crop of college students from small towns across the country",
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"Just like any other civilization that chose to urbanize , the Romans were up against a problem: What to do with all this waste",
"As the area continues to grow and urbanize , the amount of impervious surfaces like streets and parking lots increases, Simonsen said. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 July 2021",
"Some people didn\u2019t want to urbanize the city, preferring that money be spent on roadways. \u2014 Elizabeth Findell, WSJ , 27 Dec. 2020",
"But the tanker industry might also be an early illustration of how parts of the private sector stand to profit from a warming and fast- urbanizing world. \u2014 Peter Schwartzstein, New York Times , 11 Jan. 2020",
"However, although Vietnam is urbanizing , almost two-thirds of its population still live in rural areas. \u2014 Sarah Lazarus, CNN , 6 Apr. 2020",
"While Manhattan was urbanizing , Queens, a patchwork of commercial nurseries, was more pastoral. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Mar. 2020",
"At the same time, the world population is growing and urbanizing rapidly. \u2014 Alexis Benveniste, CNN , 28 Feb. 2020",
"Now, the rapidly urbanizing county is beginning a discussion that could result in a change to that agreement. \u2014 Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2019"
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"The bad guy here is known simply as the Grabber, a child-snatching psychopath of the sort found in urban legend and, unfortunately, on the front pages of newspapers. \u2014 Michael O'sullivan, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
"That\u2019s another urban legend about the dissension on the choice of song. \u2014 Pat Saperstein, Variety , 14 Feb. 2022",
"But talk of the character inspiring violent games and actions is something of an urban legend . \u2014 Dani Di Placido, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"An urban legend about a girl in a communion dress brought to the big screen in this revenge thriller. \u2014 Emilio Mayorga, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"That urban legend is really cruel and unfair to Marisa. \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 7 Mar. 2022",
"As the urban legend goes, those driving vehicles painted red tend to receive the most speeding tickets. \u2014 Jim Gorzelany, Forbes , 25 Oct. 2021",
"The urban legend that frequent cuts make hair grow faster is simply untrue. \u2014 Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire , 22 Oct. 2021",
"An urban legend arose among residents about a murderous supernatural creature with a hook for a hand; and, yes, the hook was part of the murderousness. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 Aug. 2021"
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