as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area
a municipality with an excellent police department
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Recent Examples of municipality
In the 1700s colonial newspaper printers survived because of government contracts and would act as official printers for a municipality.
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Corey Hutchins, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Some municipalities offer composting programs, in which residents can just place their compost into separate bins to be taken away.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
What happened in Joliet is playing out across the country, in municipalities both big and small, as tech companies race to erect gargantuan complexes filled with thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) to provide the compute demanded by artificial intelligence.
—Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
More than 70 municipalities have since canceled their contracts with Flock, including Mountain View and Santa Clara County.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Corey Hutchins, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Some municipalities offer composting programs, in which residents can just place their compost into separate bins to be taken away.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
What happened in Joliet is playing out across the country, in municipalities both big and small, as tech companies race to erect gargantuan complexes filled with thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) to provide the compute demanded by artificial intelligence.
—Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
More than 70 municipalities have since canceled their contracts with Flock, including Mountain View and Santa Clara County.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for municipality
Noun
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To close out a busy Day 2, the Steelers selected a mauling guard with a mullet, who will come to a city where that haircut never went out of style.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former President Islam Karimov, is behind bars in Uzbekistan as the trial opens in a Swiss federal criminal court in the southern city of Bellinzona.—
Jamey Keaten,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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The story is set in 2013, in a town in an unnamed New England state.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Boasting 37 miles of pure electric power, the NX450h+ certainly succeeds for consumers looking to float around town.—
Marc D Grasso,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolises, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Viewed from certain perspectives—the perspective of history, the perspective of the roughly one quarter of the world that was once colonized by Britain—London is a metropolis built on crime.—
Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Municipality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/municipality. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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