Thesaurus results for SUBCULTURES

subcultures

noun

plural of subculture

as in cultures

a group that has beliefs and behaviors that are different from the main groups within a culture or society a subculture of local painters a subculture of poverty and crime

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Recent Examples of subcultures Matić, who is based in London, examines questions of race, gender, identity, intimacy, and subcultures through the mediums of photography, film, installation, and writing. —

News Desk, Artforum, 15 May 2026 Its fashion draws inspiration from post-punk, underground comics, skateboarding and other subcultures. —

Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 14 May 2026 Like her fictional subject, Nguyen is a fan of metal music and enjoys delving into intense subcultures. —

Paul Hodgins, Oc Register, 14 May 2026 As much as anything else, these marketplaces are full-fledged subcultures. —

Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 May 2026 The principal remit of the CCCS was interrogation of the mass media and exploration of popular culture and subcultures. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026 There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas. —

Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026 The series’ brief plunges into American subcultures are told without hand-holding or rigid structure; the point of the story often doesn’t reveal itself until the end — or perhaps days later. —

Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Just as Season 1 was a sociological cross section of Asian-American Los Angeles and its many subcultures, Season 2 gets specific with another corner of Southern California. —

Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Many cultures around the world have long thought of nonhuman animals as having something like consciousness; some even presume plants have it, too.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
Even within our company, there was such a rich mix of cultures—New Zealanders, Japanese, Brazilians, Americans, and Australians.

— Zama Magudulela, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026