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• s  held together as by social or cultural ties

• close-knit

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• The university down the block
  Dabney Lyles, a graduate student at DePaul University, spent spring break in Salvador, Brazil. She noticed the region had a huge technology cluster and how closely knit it was to the local universities. Chicago, she figured, has even more schools than Salvador, so that got her thinking about this Curious City question: What economic impact do local colleges and universities have on the city’s ...
  July 11, 2013 - WBEZ 91.5 Chicago