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Recent Examples of urbanite
This progress has extended to informal settlements, the unplanned areas where the lowest-income urbanites live.
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Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 9 May 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
With travel and quarantine restrictions, many Chinese urbanites headed outside of cities, fuelling a rural tourism boom, while influencers like Li Ziqi drew large followings to their posts about the idyllic countryside.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
China's new urbanites have enduring ties to the land.
—Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2015
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Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 9 May 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
With travel and quarantine restrictions, many Chinese urbanites headed outside of cities, fuelling a rural tourism boom, while influencers like Li Ziqi drew large followings to their posts about the idyllic countryside.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 10 June 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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Whisler's On Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m., martinis (including espresso, regular, dirty and cosmopolitans) are 75 cents.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Aug. 2025
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Is whiskey a man’s spirit, while women are only allowed to sip cosmopolitans?—
Jessi Roti,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The Huntington Beach resident, who is the son of Duke Aipa and grandson of legendary Hawaiian shaper Ben Aipa, was critically injured after being towed on his electric bike in California on the Saturday before his death.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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In April 2025, The Guardian reported that the number of U.K. residents visiting the U.S. decreased by 14.3% in March 2025 compared to the same month in 2024.—
Michele Robson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 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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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
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Hurricane José was expected to strike, too, a few days later, so inhabitants underwent a mandatory evacuation to Antigua en masse.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
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Home to just over 1.1 million residents, the province's largest urban centers include Saskatoon, with 300,000 residents, and the capital city Regina, with approximately 240,000 inhabitants.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
4 Aug. 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 22 Aug. 2025.
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