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Recent Examples of urbanity
Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion.
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Fahad Zuberi,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Hancock County: Pennsy Trail The Greenfield section of the Pennsy Trail features art installations, a playground and a bike share program to give visitors a foliage experience that melds urbanity with nature.
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Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
23 Sep. 2025
In Otsuki’s collection, elements of the Japanese salaryman mixed with the urbanity of Gere’s Julian Kay create a compelling blend of references that ultimately play to each designer’s strength.
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Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Their company, Southland Stories, is designed to bring to the screen the life and culture of the American South, which has been overshadowed by urbanity in pop culture, in Charlamagne’s view.
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2025
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Fahad Zuberi,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Hancock County: Pennsy Trail The Greenfield section of the Pennsy Trail features art installations, a playground and a bike share program to give visitors a foliage experience that melds urbanity with nature.
—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
23 Sep. 2025
In Otsuki’s collection, elements of the Japanese salaryman mixed with the urbanity of Gere’s Julian Kay create a compelling blend of references that ultimately play to each designer’s strength.
—
Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Their company, Southland Stories, is designed to bring to the screen the life and culture of the American South, which has been overshadowed by urbanity in pop culture, in Charlamagne’s view.
—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanity
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Religiosity and nationalism have fused, displacing cosmopolitanism.
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One of Singapore’s most attractive qualities is its cosmopolitanism, its openness to the world; Raffles embodies that spirit.
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Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.
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Pair these lightweight pants with chunky sneakers or wedge sandals for the ideal blend of comfort and sophistication.
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Fans of trivia like to say that caring so deeply about these facts at a time of disinformation and anti-intellectualism is an act of defiance—that picking up trivia is a way to keep knowledge from being disappeared.
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The mix of academic-level intellectualism and gross-out outrageousness fits the mood Riley wants to conjure.
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Meanwhile, a decline in sudden infant death syndrome could be connected to an increase in education about safe sleeping for infants, Warren said in a statement.
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With an education and careers, many Parsi women tend to marry later in life – or sometimes not at all – and often have fewer children.
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In sixteenth-century Italian pedante comedies, the Latin tutors—always the butt of the joke—are known more for the gaps in their knowledge than for their erudition.
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In her coda, Woo writes with great compassion and erudition about what can’t be found in archives, particularly the specifics of how Ellen Craft died.
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Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.
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While widely opposed because of the jarring mixture of southern gentility and Pittsburgh-centricity, the merger doubled the size of the airline and brought the Charlotte hub, now American’s second largest hub and the third biggest single airline hub in the world.
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Ramona Burress, a parent and former head of Kenwood’s Local School Council, helped revive the school’s parent fundraising group at the height of COVID, as many families struggled with access to food, housing and technology needed for remote learning.
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Alberto Carvalho, who led the nation’s second-largest school district, stepped down Sunday, saying his departure is intended to remove distraction from student learning.
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Longevity literacy matters in retirement planning.
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If primary schools should teach AI literacy to prepare children for the future, boards should demand AI fraud literacy in their companies now, to defend the present.
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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