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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanite
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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
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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
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Alas, Jewish skeptics of Zionism who preferred to think of themselves as cosmopolitans found no reprieve.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The adjective cosmopolitan only begins to describe Sajet, who has had important life experiences on four continents.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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But among the cobweb-covered religious statues are other cemetery residents with a less-than-pleasant history.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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How are Metcalfe Park area residents are adapting to life without a full-service grocery store?—
Steven Martinez,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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While the cease-fire is essential to prevent further injury and death, humanitarian aid to the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza is vital to begin transforming their situations.—
Anna Halford,
Time,
25 Oct. 2025
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Related Stories The film explores how colonial-era conflicts resurface through supernatural events, with spirits returning and black magic stirring as the legacy of empire haunts the land and its inhabitants in Bujang Valley.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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Don’t limit yourself to wearing these shoes in nautical destinations—even city dwellers are getting in on this trend.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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This is hot-button subject matter, no doubt, presented in a way that could reinforce the left’s worst beliefs about the right and make the right think the left sees them all as awful, racist woods-dwellers.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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