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Recent Examples of cosmopolitanism
Religiosity and nationalism have fused, displacing cosmopolitanism.
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Adam Louis-Klein,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
One of Singapore’s most attractive qualities is its cosmopolitanism, its openness to the world; Raffles embodies that spirit.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this.
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Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms.
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Richard Nedjat-Haiem,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
Buddhist culture and ideas, which spread across Asia through the trade routes and communication networks of an early urban cosmopolitanism, have long had a deep affinity with technoculture.
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Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.
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Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
The main obstacle will likely be the politics of immigration, where the tension between cosmopolitanism and national solidarity surfaces most clearly.
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Jeff D. Colgan,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Apr. 2017
Adam Louis-Klein,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
One of Singapore’s most attractive qualities is its cosmopolitanism, its openness to the world; Raffles embodies that spirit.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this.
—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms.
—
Richard Nedjat-Haiem,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
Buddhist culture and ideas, which spread across Asia through the trade routes and communication networks of an early urban cosmopolitanism, have long had a deep affinity with technoculture.
—
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.
—
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
The main obstacle will likely be the politics of immigration, where the tension between cosmopolitanism and national solidarity surfaces most clearly.
—
Jeff D. Colgan,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitanism
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Graffiti contained nearly everything: urbanity, fieriness, walls, glyphs.
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His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes.
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Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.
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Pair these lightweight pants with chunky sneakers or wedge sandals for the ideal blend of comfort and sophistication.
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Fans of trivia like to say that caring so deeply about these facts at a time of disinformation and anti-intellectualism is an act of defiance—that picking up trivia is a way to keep knowledge from being disappeared.
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The mix of academic-level intellectualism and gross-out outrageousness fits the mood Riley wants to conjure.
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Meanwhile, a decline in sudden infant death syndrome could be connected to an increase in education about safe sleeping for infants, Warren said in a statement.
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With an education and careers, many Parsi women tend to marry later in life – or sometimes not at all – and often have fewer children.
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In sixteenth-century Italian pedante comedies, the Latin tutors—always the butt of the joke—are known more for the gaps in their knowledge than for their erudition.
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In her coda, Woo writes with great compassion and erudition about what can’t be found in archives, particularly the specifics of how Ellen Craft died.
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Last year, Syracuse was one of several schools to offer last-minute scholarships to students who had yet to commit in a bid to boost enrollment.
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The scholarship program was started by the Brothers family in memory of their father Oscar Brothers, first president of the Gamber and Community Fire Company, and supports local area students furthering their education after high school.
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Ramona Burress, a parent and former head of Kenwood’s Local School Council, helped revive the school’s parent fundraising group at the height of COVID, as many families struggled with access to food, housing and technology needed for remote learning.
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Alberto Carvalho, who led the nation’s second-largest school district, stepped down Sunday, saying his departure is intended to remove distraction from student learning.
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Parton, a long-time literacy advocate, created the Imagination Library to give free books to kids and has been working with Reading Ready Pittsburgh for eight years.
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In the nineteenth century, upper class American women who had leisure time and literacy became really into keeping floral calendars to note when wildflowers bloomed.
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