municipal

as in federal
of or relating to the government of a city or town municipal government a municipal election

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Recent Examples of municipal Originally Published: April 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM EDT Most Popular Most Popular CT town bans cigarettes, marijuana smoking and vaping on municipal property Longtime watering hole in historic CT building up for sale. From Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025 Miami Herald 305-376-3619 Miami Herald consumer trends reporter Howard Cohen, a 2017 Media Excellence Awards winner, has covered pop music, theater, health and fitness, obituaries, municipal government, breaking news and general assignment. Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025 Lonnie Groot is a Daytona Beach Shores attorney who has represented municipal governments throughout Central Florida. Lonnie Groot, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025 Township elections are ostensibly nonpartisan races, but state Democrats apparently seek to expand their already large footprint by joining in the usually lower-turnout municipal elections for local offices. Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for municipal
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  • This is part of the administration's broader strategy to ensure universities comply with federal law regarding protections for Jewish students.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Courts have repeatedly ruled that immigration enforcement is a function of the federal government.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin put on a show for a national television audience, trading goals in the middle period on a night that saw Pittsburgh Penguins fans give Ovechkin a standing ovation.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The New River earned national river status in 1978, and Congress began talks of redesignating it as a National Park in 2018, according to a report.
    Luke Gentile, The Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Conservatives typically treasure civic institutions as a storehouse of ancestral wisdom; those on the left have championed universal rights, individual freedoms and the vox populi.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Momentum grows around literacy in Fort Worth Friday’s announcement comes amid growing calls from Tarrant County’s civic and business leaders for schools in the Fort Worth area to improve their reading scores.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • If this were a civil case, the parties would likely file motions for summary judgment, and the judge would be able to offer an explanation of how the law applies to the evidence adduced at trial.
    Andrea Tinianow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In civil cases, confidential settlements can resolve matters that might have taken years to go to trial, by allowing those accused of wrongdoing to minimize any publicity.
    David W. Chen, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Huston could recognize the ways of that brood: her own renowned and eccentric family inhabited that domestic world of privilege, power, infidelity, and intrigue that became Christie’s writerly milieu.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • At the meeting, policymakers are expected to unveil more stimulus measures to boost domestic demand and offset the trade shock.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Ever since then, Mavs general manager Nico Harrison has been public enemy No. 1 in Dallas.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • According to Rolling Stone, the singer’s public profile is one of the eight followers, as well as SZA, producer Michael Uzowuru, singer girlsweetvoiced and audio engineer Sean Matsukawa.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • What's Being Recalled And Why The voluntary recall was initiated by Cabot’s parent company, Agri-Mark, Inc., on March 26, 2025, after internal testing detected elevated levels of coliform bacteria.
    Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Review staff and supervisors are now allowed to resume telework at least two days a week, according to an internal email obtained by the AP.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Municipal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/municipal. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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