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: a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city
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Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
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But even pursuits that might appear more obviously indulgent—dining, say—attained gruelling rigor in yuppie hands.
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Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Yet his broader impact was in the pioneering electoral coalition that carried him to victory across five terms — a mix of Black and Jewish voters, white yuppies, union members and key corporate leaders.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
Starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a yuppie investment banker whose only real passions are consumerism, dining out, and committing murder, this black comedy and horror fusion satirizes the mass-consumption and performative lifestyle that was a hallmark of the 1980s culture and economy.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums.
—Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
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Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Yet his broader impact was in the pioneering electoral coalition that carried him to victory across five terms — a mix of Black and Jewish voters, white yuppies, union members and key corporate leaders.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
Starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a yuppie investment banker whose only real passions are consumerism, dining out, and committing murder, this black comedy and horror fusion satirizes the mass-consumption and performative lifestyle that was a hallmark of the 1980s culture and economy.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums.
—Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for yuppie
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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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