as in civilized
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
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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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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Then there are the hallmarks of urban blight — the windowless bars and the bars on the windows.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Prop 50 map would cut through the suburbs south of Sacramento’s urban core and put Florin in a district that sweeps northeast to include Folsom and Lake Tahoe.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Urbanized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanized. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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