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  • abbreviation metropolitan

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Examples

  • Brazil, which was that here was some sort of racial paradise, this was -- you know, people didn't have -- they weren't -- wasn't tension between blacks and whites when they kind of met.

    Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race 1999

  • She liked him better than she had ever thought it possible to like a minister -- especially an ugly one, and one whom she'd never "met."

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • I say, 'I went out to walk this morning, and I met --' there I stop short, and you, in turn, give a verb synonymous, more or less, with 'met.'

    The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • These are bands we all like, and that's how we all kind of met.

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

  • -- and Harold, before he disappeared, greeted with a rapid concentration of all the shades of familiarity a large high lady, the visitor he had announced, who rose in the doorway with the manner of a person used to arriving on thresholds very much as people arrive at stations -- with the expectation of being "met."

    The Awkward Age Henry James 1879

  • With one of those strokes of boldness and decision which are characteristic of Mr. Truman in emergencies, a very difficult and dangerous problem has been met in the only way it could have been met. . .

    Truman Fires MacArthur David McCullough 2010

  • Though, to be fair, Kira was not the most tactful person he'd ever met. . .

    Proud Helios Melissa Scott 2000

  • He acknowledged that the Syrian people have legitimate demands that have not been met. ...

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • more administrative agencies if the demand for expertness is to be met. . .

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

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