1
as in national
a person who owes allegiance to a government and is protected by it
conscientious citizens who regard voting as a duty as well as a right
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as in villager
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
claimed that the good citizens of the town were sick of high property taxes
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Recent Examples of citizen
But words on paper only work if leaders respect them and citizens demand they be upheld.
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Aron Solomon
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Many of our aging citizens and their families rely on the trust of caregivers in today's society.
—Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In a move that surprised some, the Republican governor’s proclamation also called on lawmakers to weaken the state’s initiative petition process, a more than a century-old mechanism for direct democracy that allows citizens to put measures on the ballot.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
The State of California has warned citizens to beware a similar text scam.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Aron Solomon
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Many of our aging citizens and their families rely on the trust of caregivers in today's society.
—Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
In a move that surprised some, the Republican governor’s proclamation also called on lawmakers to weaken the state’s initiative petition process, a more than a century-old mechanism for direct democracy that allows citizens to put measures on the ballot.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
The State of California has warned citizens to beware a similar text scam.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for citizen
Noun
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Federal immigration authorities detained Ageu Del Almeida Freitas after the 42-year-old Brazilian national tried to resist arrest.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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At least 300 of those detained were South Korean nationals, the country's foreign ministry said.—
Kristina Foltz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Since then, five villagers Barraza represented were killed.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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During the 1970s, rural villagers in India, particularly women, responded to the invasion of loggers by embracing trees under threat, in what became known as the Chipko movement.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Data from a 2024 study that my colleague and I published in the American Journal of Public Health demonstrates that Black Chicagoans were the only race group to experience significant increases in suicide among both male and female residents between 2015 and 2021.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Like Phoenix residents heading up to Flagstaff on a summer weekend, some desert mammals’ strategy to beat the heat is to simply move to a cooler place.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Assembled at Port-La Nouvelle and towed 16 km offshore, the turbines now stand ready for the final stage of cable and grid connection works done by RTE, before starting to deliver clean energy to approximately 50,000 inhabitants each year.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Citizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citizen. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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