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as in suburbanite
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as in cosmopolitan
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Recent Examples of urbanite
This cut off healthy green space access for millions of urbanites, hiking and cycling enthusiasts and children denied the fun of playing in nature.
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Jamie Gold, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Suburban-style living has the benefit of being quieter, greener and typically offering amenities like community recreation centers less available to urbanites.
—Jamie Gold, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Either way, their biological legacies were in fact extinguished: imperial Roman urbanites left little detectable genetic trace in subsequent Europeans.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
In her municipality, special development zones have been filled with upscale condominiums since the 1990s, housing urbanites keen to leave the city.
—Sammy Feldblum, The Dial, 30 Jan. 2025
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Jamie Gold, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Suburban-style living has the benefit of being quieter, greener and typically offering amenities like community recreation centers less available to urbanites.
—Jamie Gold, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Either way, their biological legacies were in fact extinguished: imperial Roman urbanites left little detectable genetic trace in subsequent Europeans.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
In her municipality, special development zones have been filled with upscale condominiums since the 1990s, housing urbanites keen to leave the city.
—Sammy Feldblum, The Dial, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanite
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The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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Billionaire cosmopolitans who want to hire immigrants don’t mix easily with vehemently nativist populists who want to ratchet up taxes on said billionaires.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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For an island of just 123 year-round residents, the stars may prove to be a new kind of economic lifeline—one that preserves what makes Anholt so rare.—
Valerie Stimac,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Aside from the question of funding Trump’s goal, a major rethinking of current plans for the property — actually two independent plans derived from two lawsuits — would probably be needed to accommodate 6,000 new residents.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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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
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Its release comes amid a burgeoning arms race for salary cap tools and sophisticates.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Even so, the eruption was disastrous for Tristan’s inhabitants.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
23 May 2025
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Lupita Nyong'o stars as Roz, a service robot who washes up on a small island with no human inhabitants and must figure out how to adapt her programming to the wilderness while mothering a baby goose.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
23 May 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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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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