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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families..
Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released.
[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
Use inner-city when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inner-city means Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families..
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Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released.
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