urbanite

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Recent Examples of urbanite Young urbanites snapped selfies and cheered while local farmers and children in school uniforms looked on. Guerchom Ndebo, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025 Although architects and other urbanites ridiculed the project, many working-class individuals found the new Skopje meaningful, an international brand that could bring Macedonia back to the world scene. Fabio Mattioli, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2017 What resulted is a chamber piece about a dispirited urbanite named Yvonne (Chao) who retreats to a country house where her friend (Hernandez) is residing with a couple (Harris and Cusati-Moyer) who rattle off crunchy platitudes about mugwort, organic produce, and the restorative power of a sunrise. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025 This cut off healthy green space access for millions of urbanites, hiking and cycling enthusiasts and children denied the fun of playing in nature. Jamie Gold, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for urbanite
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanite
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
Noun
  • Maeve Reilly—a top celebrity stylist who has worked with Hailey Bieber, Eva Longoria, and Coco Jones—is among L.A. residents currently re-establishing their roots.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 July 2025
  • Gasping can be heard as the New York resident appears startled, but quickly moves away from the bird.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • How things have changed: My interlocutor was one member of a large and diverse constituency of urban sophisticates who espouse comparable positions, not infrequently in the same gratingly defiant terms.
    Ian Volner, Artforum, 28 May 2025
  • Neither film mentions the pandemic, but both show how a circle of moneyed, urban sophisticates represses feelings about death and anxiety.
    Armond White, National Review, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Its genesis reaches back into our history and is directly related to the health and wellbeing of our nation’s inhabitants, and, more broadly, global health.
    Jennifer Boulanger, New York Daily News, 28 June 2025
  • The aim is to remove tariffs and other trade barriers to ease the movement of goods in a continent of around 1.5 billion inhabitants.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 27 June 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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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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