See metropolize on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1987, Telecommunications Abstracts, page 14:",
"text": "Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.",
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"ref": "2003, Richard G. Harris, North American Linkages: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada:",
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"ref": "2014, Andrew D. M. Beaumont, Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761, page 16:",
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"ref": "1967, Today's Health - Volume 45, Issues 1-6, page 26:",
"text": "Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.",
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"ref": "1997, South Carolina Wildlife - Volume 44, page 7:",
"text": "I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.",
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"ref": "1866, American Journal of Numismatics - Volumes 1-3, page 4:",
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"ref": "1870, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, page 176:",
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