cosmopolitan

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noun

as in sophisticate
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers as someone who had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, she seemed very much the cosmopolitan to her old classmates

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Recent Examples of cosmopolitan
Adjective
Consequently, today's population combines elements of small-community social cohesion with cosmopolitan exposure. Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025 Although Dreyfus was eventually exonerated, the pairing of Jews with cosmopolitan liberalism endured. Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
Is whiskey a man’s spirit, while women are only allowed to sip cosmopolitans? Jessi Roti, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 May 2025 The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece. Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cosmopolitan
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Adjective
  • Gone is the Monster’s sophisticated consciousness, his months spent in solitude, his intimate revenge plot.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The police had found evidence not only of a network ferrying cocaine from South America to European ports but also of a sophisticated money-laundering organization worth hundreds of millions of euros—an enterprise rivalling the narcotics business in its size.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For Foster’s second win, she was remade as a bona fide A-lister: a sleek Hollywood sophisticate with nothing to prove.
    Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Friend is Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s class-conscious lament for how urban sophisticates (Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane) deny but can’t escape spiritual obligations.
    Armond White, National Review, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolitans, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Han, looking almost cartoonishly mid-century metropolitan, wears a dark coat, with the lapel snapped up, over a white shirt and a dark tie.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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