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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
Examples of yuppie in a Sentence
Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
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Celine showed yuppie-friendly double-breasted jackets with gold buttons.
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2026
This powerful ensemble portrays American stereotypes of the time — the yuppie, the drug dealer, the TV star — and deftly humanizes them.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
This is probably how the hippies felt when the yuppies were moving in 50 years ago!
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
Yuppies, as they were called, were a real phenomenon.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2026
This powerful ensemble portrays American stereotypes of the time — the yuppie, the drug dealer, the TV star — and deftly humanizes them.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
This is probably how the hippies felt when the yuppies were moving in 50 years ago!
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
Yuppies, as they were called, were a real phenomenon.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 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 13 Feb. 2026.
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