urbanite

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Recent Examples of urbanite For a book that focused on Black and brown urbanites with Caribbean and Latine connections, my playlist artists included Sade, Beyoncé, Rubén Blades, Kaytranada, La India, Luther Vandross, H.E.R., Gloria Estefan, Bad Bunny and more, some of whom are directly referenced on the page. Clarence A. Haynes july 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025 That type of foresight would be shared with readers decades before all-black wardrobes would become common with urbanites in major cities. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 June 2025 This progress has extended to informal settlements, the unplanned areas where the lowest-income urbanites live. Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025 China's new urbanites have enduring ties to the land. Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2015 See All Example Sentences for urbanite
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanite
Noun
  • The film, which brings back Bob Odenkirk as a typical suburbanite who racks up a serious body count when not driving a minivan, is projected to earn between $10 million to $12 million from 3,200 North American theaters.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Kevin Nealon played Doug Wilson, a weed-loving suburbanite who gets tangled up in Nancy's drug business.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The adjective cosmopolitan only begins to describe Sajet, who has had important life experiences on four continents.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Cocktails that would otherwise cost $18 each - such as Margaritas, cosmopolitans, Manhattans, and Old-Fashioneds - are included in this package.
    Debbi Kickham, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • When the federal government reached an agreement with Alabama officials last October to address destructive flooding in the predominantly Black Shiloh community, residents thought their calls for help had finally been answered.
    Maia Rosenfeld, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her love of the Big Apple is one Spike, a lifelong Brooklyn resident, also shares.
    Collette Reitz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 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
  • Head to the Museum of the Cherokee People to explore exhibits that chronicle the history, heritage, and arts of the region’s earliest inhabitants.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • When teen, Kat (Christina Ricci) and her pseudo spiritual medium dad (Bill Pullman) are hired to rid a haunted mansion of its ghostly inhabitants, Kat ends up meeting a friendly ghost named Casper.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 2 Oct. 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
Noun
  • More of a surface-dweller type?
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Electric vehicles promise lower costs and fewer emissions, but for city dwellers, charging access often lags behind the promise.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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