divided city

collocation in English

meaningsofdividedandcity

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divided
adjective
uk
/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/us
/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/
split into two or more opposing groups who ...
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city
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.i/us
/ˈsɪt̬.i/
a ...
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(Definition ofdividedandcityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdivided city

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It is adividedcity, one of the most divided in the world.
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Do we intend to recreate adividedcity?
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They paint inexorably a picture of adividedcity.
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Berlin, celebrating its 750th anniversary, is adividedcityin a divided country—a sad commentary on our modern world.
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Progress is slow due to the tense relations between the ethnic groups of thisdividedcity.
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Berlin is adividedcity.
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In this localised sector of onedividedcitywe have epitomised and dramatised, in drab, unfeeling concrete, the political division of the world in which we live.
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Here her themes are the signs of war, still visible on the buildings in thedividedcity.
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In the 1980s, the city was described as adividedcityeast to west based on socioeconomic class.
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He establishes that it is impossible to rule adividedcity.
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Seven years later they meet again in thedividedcity.
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In divided cities, ethnic or religious diversity make agreement on urban strategies difficult.
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Although the metaphor of duality has been applied to colonial cities and divided cities alike, it became associated within urban studies with economic restructuring and the vicissitudes of late capitalism.
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