Metropolitan Statistical Area

in a sentence

Later, our personality journalist speculates on where Uncle Enzo will stay when he makes his compulsory trip to our Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

'Msa,' said Bourne, again waving his hand, then suddenly holding it steady, a signal for the bartender to remain where he was.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986