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  • noun US A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.

Etymologies

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metropolitan complex

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Examples

  • The whole metroplex is generally called Dallas or Dallas-Ft.

    Waldo Jaquith - 5 signs your town sucks. 2006

  • From the start, Armstrong wanted a film that could make it at the "metroplex" as she describes it - a climate change blockbuster.

    TreeHugger 2009

  • So how better to celebrate than by holding the All-Star Game in the Dallas metroplex, at the palatial football stadium of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in a nod to Mavs fans?

    Maverick owner Cuban gains in stature among NBA owners 2010

  • Mr. Sanchez has emerged as the toast of the New York/New Jersey metroplex, having paced the Jets to first place in the AFC East after completing 58.3% of his passes for eight touchdowns without an interception.

    Jets Call Favre's Era 'Uncomfortable' Scott Cacciola 2010

  • Today, metro Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex are both pressing the San Francisco Bay area for the No. 4 spot, and Detroit is far behind.

    The Fall of the Midwest Economic Model Michael Barone 2011

  • The primal mythmakers of California are its real estate agents, and one of them told me once that this suburb still attracts aspirant homebuyers because "it's in the heart of the metroplex."

    Quotable 2010

  • Melissa is almost a part of the metroplex nowadays!

    Cheese balls and Aunt Betty | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • "Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire" is a new, weekly web serial by Abner Senires about a pair of guns-for-hire trying to eke out a living in the 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City.

    SF Tidbits for 12/20/08 2008

  • The primal mythmakers of California are its real estate agents, and one of them told me once that this suburb still attracts aspirant homebuyers because "it's in the heart of the metroplex."

    Quotable 2010

  • The primal mythmakers of California are its real estate agents, and one of them told me once that this suburb still attracts aspirant homebuyers because "it's in the heart of the metroplex."

    Quotable 2010

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