café society

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Recent Examples of café society Vogue did have artists capture the sartorial caprices of cafe society back in the day; these drawings usually illustrated points made in the accompanying text. Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023 Ah, to be a member of cafe society. Meg Donohue, Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022 Showplace’s cafe society analyzed this transaction for the rest of the day. Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019 After arguing with a group of American Communists who comprised Havana’s new cafe society, a sobered Cohen shaved the beard and put on a seersucker suit, as recounted by Nadel. Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 2 May 2018 In 2010, the cafe was the site of the city’s first parklet, a place that was coffee grounds zero for the newly emerging Divisadero Street cafe society. Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for café society
Noun
  • The business jet set flew from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
  • Yet the influencers have thrived by portraying Dubai as a magnet for the business-class (and above) global jet set, who are drawn to the city’s futuristic, crossroads-of-the-world appeal.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • His recruiting focused on the beautiful people of the 1980s, so the screen fills with jet-setting supermodels and nights at Studio 54.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Newsrooms are sort of like the military or the police or the beautiful people at the FDNY down the street.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • For Hollywood’s upper class of creatives, the best version of their films may now include AI.
    Corbin Bolies, Variety, 3 June 2026
  • The throughline of his life is his on-again, off-again friendship with, but also his steadfast love for a neighbor girl of the upper class, who challenges him repeatedly to become his better self.
    The Know, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • The name originated after apartheid ended in the 1990s and was rebranded as Bafana to reflect the integrated society.
    Amna Subhan, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
  • His arrest came during a years-long crackdown on civil society and dissent, which began following mass protests in 2018 that the government violently repressed.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Sargent escaped the scandal by decamping from Paris to London, and Gautreau retreated from the haut monde.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 5 May 2026

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“Café society.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caf%C3%A9%20society. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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