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Pugetopolis

Pugetopolis
 n.— «Pugetopolis is a term boosters use to express the ambitions of creating a massive city that will extend from Olympia to Bellingham, and cynics and critics—and what I like to think of as reasonable people—think of Pugetopolis as basically turning us into something like the New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia metroplex.» —“Knute Berger takes on Northwest myths in “Pugetopolis”” by Mark Rahner Seattle Times (Washington) Jan. 12, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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