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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
megapolis . - noun An
inhabitant of amegapolis .
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Examples
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You have these metropolitan, "megapolitan" areas that are real economic but not political entities.
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Unlike St. Louis or Denver or other cities, the magazine picks New Orleans to be part of a dynamic "megapolitan" region in the GulfSouth.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Unlike St. Louis or Denver or other cities, the magazine picks New Orleans to be part of a dynamic "megapolitan" region in the GulfSouth.
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The forum at the ASU downtown Phoenix campus was an outgrowth of a Brookings study that said Mountain West "megapolitan" areas such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver should forge alliances to more effectively lobby the Obama administration and the new Congress to deal with transportation, environmental and other urban issues.
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Their inhabitants will move to three megapolitan strips which include such thriving cities as Detroit.
April 16th, 2007 2007
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Nevada and Arizona (among others) losing population to three megapolitan strips: One on the East Coast, one on the West Coast, one including such inland cities as Buffalo.
December 30th, 2005 2005
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Strongly influenced by religious fundamentalism, its criticism of the megapolitan industrial East and its harking back to an authentic Americanism supplied the conservative cause with emotional arguments.
CONSERVATISM RUDOLF VIERHAUS 1968
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The Census Bureau will soon begin to define new "combined statistical areas" - often referred to by demographers as megapolitan areas or megalopolises - based on growth and overlapping commuter traffic.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"There's such a large share of population that is now in reach of a substantial metropolitan center due to transit systems and highways, that the traditional notion of small-town America is changing," said Robert Lang, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas who has done extensive research on U.S. megapolitan and regional growth.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"There's such a large share of population that is now in reach of a substantial metropolitan center due to transit systems and highways, that the traditional notion of small-town America is changing," said Lang, who has done extensive research on U.S. megapolitan and regional growth.
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