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
  • Before a public address announcer took the microphone, the Lynx organization held a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, two residents killed during federal immigration operations in January.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • Some 322 residents RSVP’d, and more than two dozen participants checked in at all five restaurants, based on the findings of the online app.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • International sophisticates of every age, seasonal trade-fair young professionals, glamour puss models, honeymooners, couples with kids in tow, heads of state and some of the world’s biggest film stars.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Mischie’s comedy takes place in a remote, mountainous village in Romania where every one of the inhabitants has applied for government benefits, claiming disabilities of various kinds.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 May 2026
  • If an ostrich egg reveals rainy conditions, that means an individual human settlement likely also felt that precipitation—and maybe the inhabitants changed their behavior accordingly.
    Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 7 May 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
  • The one-time cellar-dweller Braves became known as America's Team and eventually dominated the National League in the 1990s under Turner's ownership, including a 1995 World Series victory.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Boyson and co-screenwriter Ricky Camilleri overlap tales of two seemingly opposite young guys – wealthy New York teen Balthazar Malone (Jaeden Martell, a casting coup) and loner Texas trailer-park dweller Solomon Jackson (Asa Butterfield, in one of his best performances yet).
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026

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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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