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Recent Examples of cosmopolitanism
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.
—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
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
Noun
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Graffiti contained nearly everything: urbanity, fieriness, walls, glyphs.—
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
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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.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Rather than offering a reverential homage, the concept recalls the original’s aggressive sophistication, while integrating bleeding-edge advancements.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
17 June 2026
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The gradually emergent upstairs-downstairs theme was explored with more sophistication on The White Lotus.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
Noun
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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.—
Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
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The mix of academic-level intellectualism and gross-out outrageousness fits the mood Riley wants to conjure.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
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The course, which was combined with a more traditional woodworking class, was developed by the Home Builders Institute, a nonprofit that provides trade skill training and education for the building industry.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
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When Ancelotti won the first of his five Champions League titles as a coach, with Milan in 2003, Clement was a 31-year-old education and welfare officer at Fulham, having left a job as a school PE teacher in order to work in football.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
14 June 2026
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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.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Nicholas Boggs,
The Atlantic,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Magloire’s father, who went to the country on a scholarship to study, was among them.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
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Both Soliches were recipients of that award, which is a full-tuition and housing scholarship for high-achieving caddies.—
Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
13 June 2026
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The elastico requires perseverance and patience to master, with a key learning point being that the skill, otherwise known as the flip-flap, is performed in one motion.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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DeepMind contributes expertise in artificial intelligence and learning systems, while Nvidia provides the high-performance computing infrastructure needed for large-scale simulation and robot training.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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Topics include financial literacy and legal business structures to recipe development and safe food handling.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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Communities seeking long-term prosperity must help residents develop digital fluency, AI literacy, critical thinking, and confidence alongside technological access.—
Michael Edmondson,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Cosmopolitanism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitanism. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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