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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
Growing cities are required by Washington's Growth Management Act, passed in the early 1990s, to anticipate rising populations, lay out infrastructure investments, and address challenges like urban sprawl.
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Christine Clarridge, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
The National Capital Region (NCR), a dense urban sprawl of 16 cities that is home to more than 13 million people, is at risk of flooding from heavy to intense rains starting Sunday at noon, data from the state weather agency showed.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
Despite its close proximity to the urban sprawl, the natural world permeates their forested two-acre lot, where rosemary and lavender grow, wild beehives can be found in old tree branches, and the occasional brown bear wanders past.
—John Wogan, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
As Austin’s outer bounds have grown, the urban sprawl has encroached on coyote habitat.
—Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
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Christine Clarridge, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
The National Capital Region (NCR), a dense urban sprawl of 16 cities that is home to more than 13 million people, is at risk of flooding from heavy to intense rains starting Sunday at noon, data from the state weather agency showed.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
Despite its close proximity to the urban sprawl, the natural world permeates their forested two-acre lot, where rosemary and lavender grow, wild beehives can be found in old tree branches, and the occasional brown bear wanders past.
—John Wogan, Architectural Digest, 25 Oct. 2024
As Austin’s outer bounds have grown, the urban sprawl has encroached on coyote habitat.
—Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for urban sprawl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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The cost of Southwest's flights vary, depending on the arrival date, but 15 flights to the Super Bowl city from the Chiefs' and Eagles' home base have been added, along with 16 return flights from New Orleans to Kansas City and Philadelphia, according to Southwest.com.—
Sydney Borchers,
Fox News,
2 Feb. 2025
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No dates or cities have yet been announced; only a photo and brief graphic accompany the news.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
2 Feb. 2025
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The parents could have simply been out of town or on vacation, but officers also worried about them.—
Emma Steele,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said the Israeli military launched attacks on Lebanese citizens on Sunday attempting to enter towns still occupied by Israeli forces.—
Charbel Mallo,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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From growing up in the inner city of Philadelphia to sitting on the front porch of his log home in rural Tennessee.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
10 July 2024
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The doc sees Shakespeare and Chaucer teacher Kyle wrapping up his 50th and final year at inner city Cleveland, Ohio’s Saint Ignatius High School.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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This reflexive skepticism naturally extends to the victims’ rape kits—which partly explains why, every few years, a scandalous news report emerges about one municipality or another that either hoarded or destroyed its untested kits.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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In her municipality, special development zones have been filled with upscale condominiums since the 1990s, housing urbanites keen to leave the city.—
Sammy Feldblum,
The Dial,
30 Jan. 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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As if the year of the dragon wasn’t finished with us, January 2025 in Los Angeles brought the kind of sudden devastation that could force a postapocalyptic metropolis such as this to reacquaint itself with God, only to declare God dead again as existential crisis demands.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2025
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Well, nobody is immune to a little fantasy now and then, least of all in a corporatized metropolis like Chongqing, whose streets are lit by neon signs that advertise a life these men can’t even afford to imagine for themselves.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 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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Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Sep. 2022
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Although the downtown girl aesthetic initially started as a fashion trend, downtown girl makeup is proving to be just as popular.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
28 Jan. 2025
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The space in The Chicory at 611 Fulton Street in downtown New Orleans will be open to the public on Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Super Bowl will be played on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
WWD,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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