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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The truth is that developers will soon turn Dirty into a yuppie playscape where brick is painted white, and then it’s draped in vines.
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Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
More likely, Lorde is just trying to lend enchantment to her 21st-century yuppie routine.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
If polyamory feels like a fashionable subplot for Bechdel to tackle, this is only because heterosexuals have recently discovered in it a promising balm for yuppie malaise.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 16 June 2025
Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.
—New Atlas, 9 June 2025
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Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
More likely, Lorde is just trying to lend enchantment to her 21st-century yuppie routine.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
If polyamory feels like a fashionable subplot for Bechdel to tackle, this is only because heterosexuals have recently discovered in it a promising balm for yuppie malaise.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 16 June 2025
Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.
—New Atlas, 9 June 2025
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 19 Jul. 2025.
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