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
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Noun
  • Hamm plays a suburbanite who steals from his wealthy New York neighbors to maintain his upper-crust lifestyle.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • There's a matinee for students and daytime explorers and a Saturday night outing for date-night cosmopolitans.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In that series, Michelle Pfeiffer’s cosmopolitan Stacy Clyburn learns to embrace the American West after a tragedy forces her to leave New York City for the Madison River Valley in central Montana.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • After its sidewalk-to-spire refurbishment, the 47-story structure now houses only 375 keys for hotel guests and 372 for private residents.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For many residents, the rising cost of fuel is taking a toll on everyday spending.
    Da Lin, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The novel was adapted into a 1965 film, with Caine in a star-making performance as Deighton’s protagonist, a sardonic working-class sophisticate with a love of gourmet food.
    Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Heartland churchgoers, urban sophisticates, football neophytes—everyone got swept up in his will to win.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Despite the geopolitical and financial constraints, the sea-level canal studies employed hundreds of researchers who increased knowledge of the isthmus and its human and nonhuman inhabitants.
    Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Another of these production facilities is Site 931, which expanded into Baitu village, prompting the evictions of its inhabitants.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As for the documentary, that was spurred by Scorsese's trip to Polizzi Generosa, a town where her father's ancestors are from, in the Italian metropolitan of Palermo.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But, mostly, city dwellers are deprived of the true glories of the season.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The clash between the democratic socialist mayor and the moderate Democrat Council speaker comes as city dwellers await the passage of the state budget, which has a large bearing on the city’s fiscal situation this year.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026

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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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