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Researchers began excavating the Xiongan site in 2017, working their way from the outer city to the inner city and discovering the Tang Dynasty temple where the dragon was found in 2023 as well as other ceramics and Buddhist relics.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Only the wealthiest resided in the inner city, made up the raja’s court, and decided the fate of the kingdom’s people—yet never ventured outside the sixty-foot-tall iron gate to mingle or empathize.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
In fact, my mother's high school, Eastside, is featured in Lean On Me, the Black film classic that details the true story of Paterson's own Principal Joe Clark, an educator who went to extreme lengths to help improve the test scores and livelihoods of Black students at the inner city school.
—Dria James, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2025
So what’s a flower farm doing in the middle of inner city Chicago?
—Martha Shade, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Only the wealthiest resided in the inner city, made up the raja’s court, and decided the fate of the kingdom’s people—yet never ventured outside the sixty-foot-tall iron gate to mingle or empathize.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
In fact, my mother's high school, Eastside, is featured in Lean On Me, the Black film classic that details the true story of Paterson's own Principal Joe Clark, an educator who went to extreme lengths to help improve the test scores and livelihoods of Black students at the inner city school.
—Dria James, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2025
So what’s a flower farm doing in the middle of inner city Chicago?
—Martha Shade, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inner city
Noun
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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
Noun
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The San Diego Civic Theatre opened to the public on Jan. 12, 1965, as the culmination of a decades-long effort by city boosters to create a downtown community concourse.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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The church bells rang in downtown Houston, Texas, as Catholics, with hearts both heavy and grateful, came for comfort.—
Janet Shamlian,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Inner city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inner%20city. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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