as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area
a municipality with an excellent police department
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Recent Examples of municipality
Business owners and the tobacco industry argue that allowing municipalities to enact their own regulations forces businesses to comply with a confusing patchwork of laws that differ from city to city.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025
The measure removes the rights of municipalities to sue the gun industry, allowing only the state to file lawsuits.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
In December, more than 70 area residents signed a petition requesting an election to make Starbase its own municipality.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
In 2001 the licence was renewed, allowing the building to continue to operate as a hotel, and in 2016 an extra floor was added without the necessary permissions from the local municipality.
—Emily Wither, The Dial, 13 Feb. 2025
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025
The measure removes the rights of municipalities to sue the gun industry, allowing only the state to file lawsuits.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
In December, more than 70 area residents signed a petition requesting an election to make Starbase its own municipality.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
In 2001 the licence was renewed, allowing the building to continue to operate as a hotel, and in 2016 an extra floor was added without the necessary permissions from the local municipality.
—Emily Wither, The Dial, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for municipality
Noun
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To a resident of the more anonymous and corporate post-pandemic New York, the East Village of the eighties could seem as small and intertwined as a walled city.—
Zach Helfand,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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One such destination is Copenhagen, a Scandinavian city renowned for its art and architecture.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Soon, Rick can’t take it anymore and heads into town to find marijuana (cannabis is currently legal in Thailand), with Chelsea in tow.—
Dan Heching,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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The footage was captured in Vang Vieng, a town in the northwest region of Laos.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Many of the selections underscore the social stresses and inequalities of the growing metropolis, the scars left by the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, and the human costs of Argentina’s recurrent economic crises.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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That is what they are being punished for—an effort to free themselves from the control of a former metropolis.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Municipality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/municipality. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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