often capitalized
: 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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Harron and Turner emphasize the comedy of '80s yuppie manners inside Ellis' orgy of bloodlust, highlighting its savage satire of toxic masculinity and consumer excess.
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Sophie’s Choice meets Cape Fear meets Greek mythology in this disturbing yuppies-in-peril thriller about a wealthy, respected doctor (Colin Farrell, reuniting with Lanthimos immediately after The Lobster) whose mistakes in the operating theater come back to haunt him.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
The historian Dylan Gottlieb has explained how Hoboken property owners torched hundreds of inhabited tenements and rooming houses to clear space for yuppies’ luxury apartments.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The result, combined with vocal chops and a fondness for irony over sentimentality, merged yuppie rock fans, aging punk-rockers, Nashville regulars, and Tonight show viewers (where lang has appeared several times) into one of the broadest possible pop audiences.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Sophie’s Choice meets Cape Fear meets Greek mythology in this disturbing yuppies-in-peril thriller about a wealthy, respected doctor (Colin Farrell, reuniting with Lanthimos immediately after The Lobster) whose mistakes in the operating theater come back to haunt him.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
The historian Dylan Gottlieb has explained how Hoboken property owners torched hundreds of inhabited tenements and rooming houses to clear space for yuppies’ luxury apartments.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The result, combined with vocal chops and a fondness for irony over sentimentality, merged yuppie rock fans, aging punk-rockers, Nashville regulars, and Tonight show viewers (where lang has appeared several times) into one of the broadest possible pop audiences.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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