Helsinki

Definitions

1. The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.
2. The Finnish government.
   metonymically

Equivalents

Examples

“My doctors didn't want⟳ me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote⟳ to admit⟳ Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have⟳ an agreement on how to proceed.”

“There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take⟳ place⟳ in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August.”

“The aim of the bill is to introduce⟳ temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia.”

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