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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
The endangered Florida panther faces the dual threats of urban sprawl and increased traffic
In 2024, 36 panther deaths were recorded by state wildlife officials, which was the most since 2016.
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Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Like many cities, the fringes of Sydney’s urban sprawl are made up of working-class families, newly arrived immigrants and those pushed out further and further from downtown by rising housing prices.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Local Vibe: Salt Lake has grown into a sophisticated urban sprawl with a vibrant downtown, thriving art scene, and bustling nightlife with street vendors and musicians.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
These solutions would likewise benefit our nation’s wildlife, which are being squeezed tighter every year by urban sprawl.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
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Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
Like many cities, the fringes of Sydney’s urban sprawl are made up of working-class families, newly arrived immigrants and those pushed out further and further from downtown by rising housing prices.
—Victoria Kim, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Local Vibe: Salt Lake has grown into a sophisticated urban sprawl with a vibrant downtown, thriving art scene, and bustling nightlife with street vendors and musicians.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
These solutions would likewise benefit our nation’s wildlife, which are being squeezed tighter every year by urban sprawl.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for urban sprawl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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The Charlotte Observer reached out to a city spokesperson to offer city officials a chance to comment on the allegations in the post, but did not receive any comment Thursday.—
Nora O’Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
9 May 2025
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The kind who might shoot vlogs at jewelry stores and sneaker resale shops and make most of their money doing 25 minute sets in cities like Tucson and Omaha and shilling weed strains on their Instagram stories.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
9 May 2025
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Best places to retire: Lawrence The ultimate college town of Lawrence is 45 minutes west of Kansas City, and hosts 97,000 residents.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2025
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Located in the Czech town of Brnenec, nearly 100 miles southeast of Prague, the Museum of Survivors held its grand opening on May 10, just after the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end in Europe on May 8, 1945.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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But the Defender is overpriced and an inefficient inner city and suburbia dweller.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
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Colleges pay almost no income taxes and generally avoid paying property taxes even though their vast tracts of valuable land are often in or near struggling inner cities.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
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Creditors, including landlords, suppliers, and municipalities involved in opioid litigation, are expected to receive partial payments as assets are liquidated.—
Dan Cody,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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But during a House Rules Committee meeting Monday to advance the measure, Democrats noted that schools, libraries and municipalities would bear the costs of updating textbooks, signs and other materials.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
8 May 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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There’s the mix of distinctive scenery, from the French Quarter to the swamps to deserts, lakes and cities that can stand in for other more expensive metropolises from New York to Taipei.—
Stuart Miller,
Variety,
13 May 2025
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Those studies tended to focus on rapidly subsiding coastal metropolises such as Jakarta, Venice, and New Orleans.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
8 May 2025
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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
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Meanwhile, Athena is in downtown Los Angeles calling in a high-rise building collapse that’s happened before her very eyes.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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Sun Sentinel New condo tower, rising 46 stories in downtown Fort Lauderdale, to be tallest in town The 46-story tower, dubbed Andare Residences, is expected to open in 2027.—
South Florida Sun Sentinel,
Sun Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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