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Recent Examples of Synonyms for citify
civilize
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In this view, other European immigrants were unsuitable for civilizing the frontier—Southern Europeans were effete and decadent while Eastern European Jews were hapless in the woods and better-suited to urban, commercial spaces.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
5 June 2025 -
Five decades of broken agreements have shown that side-deals and photo-ops cannot civilize a theocracy.—
Kazem Kazerounian,
Hartford Courant,
29 May 2025
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“Citify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citify. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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