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
President vows protection for citizens abroad President Lee Jae Myung expressed deep concern about the detention and pledged stronger protections for Korean citizens overseas.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
The judge’s disciplinary case will now be considered by a panel of three members of the Judicial Discipline Adjudicative Board — including a judge, a lawyer and a citizen — to determine whether discipline should be imposed and what that discipline should be.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
Last month, a federal grand jury in Wisconsin indicted an Indian citizen in a similar scheme that also involved convincing a New Berlin couple to convert their cash into gold from them.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The administration can simply accede and Tennessee and its companion citizen group would win.
—Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
The judge’s disciplinary case will now be considered by a panel of three members of the Judicial Discipline Adjudicative Board — including a judge, a lawyer and a citizen — to determine whether discipline should be imposed and what that discipline should be.
—Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
Last month, a federal grand jury in Wisconsin indicted an Indian citizen in a similar scheme that also involved convincing a New Berlin couple to convert their cash into gold from them.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The administration can simply accede and Tennessee and its companion citizen group would win.
—Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for citizen
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But in total, 475 people, mostly Korean nationals, were arrested, suspected of living and working in the US illegally.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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The horns, smuggled from Angola, were seized, and the Vietnamese national involved was arrested.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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But something in Chocolat—the tale of a single mother, Vianne, who opens a chocolate shop in front of the church, on the first day of Lent, in a tiny, conservative French village, setting the villagers at loggerheads—had captured the public imagination.—
Joanne Harris
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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With the support of villagers and a French smuggler, Grau embarks on a dangerous mission that jeopardizes his own life and that of his family, while reigniting wounds from the still-recent Spanish Civil War.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Police are asking residents to call 305-474-6473 to report sightings of stray or aggressive dogs.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Georgia Marcum, 21, a resident of The Cliffs and a University of Arkansas, Fayetteville student was home when the shooting began and was evacuated by police.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Sep. 2025
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And sticking close to home may pay untold dividends for inhabitants’ mental health, Gorman said.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Set in a downtown Mexico City backstreet whose inhabitants’ lives are closely interwoven, the film is split into four clear parts.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Citizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citizen. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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