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Recent Examples of urbanity
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
Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
In this volume, the designer reflects deeply on the diverse aesthetics of French urbanity versus rural living.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
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, 18 Oct. 2024
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
In this volume, the designer reflects deeply on the diverse aesthetics of French urbanity versus rural living.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
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, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanity
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Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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It’s taken a while for athletes to catch up to the sophistication of this surveillance.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Courtesy of a recent makeover, the hotel has an air of sophistication with a dash of playfulness, as expressed well by the Tipsy Tea experience.—
Kathryn Streeter,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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History and intellectualism meet in Boston, where Puritan roots and events of the American Revolution have given way to a city that houses more than its fair share of universities, bookstores, and coffee shops.—
Kori Perten,
AFAR Media,
24 Sep. 2025
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But at a time when strains of anti-intellectualism are on display in pockets of society, and at a time when all else in the world feels overwhelming, Yeo says she’s moved to see people express so much interest in educational pursuits.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Target leans back towards DEI Target last week highlighted its partnership with the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs that provides education and other services to Black founders of small businesses.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Head Start provides free child care and early education to kids living in poverty, while also serving as a coordinator of services, like health care and food access, to their families.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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With Marshall Curry‘s The New Yorker at 100, a magazine famous for its erudition and curation receives a polished, amusing and generally superficial Reader’s Digest summary of a documentary.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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But this was close to the borderline of gentility.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Modesty, gentility, and protocol have no place in the apartment grope.—
Nicholas Pileggi,
Curbed,
15 Aug. 2025
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What Happens Next The announcement from Meta today is less of a pullback from AI, according to Homkes, and more of a consequence of the company’s initial learnings with the technology.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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That apprenticeship and mentorship need to continue to be a formal part of our culture, a part of our learning environment.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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After all, in the early days of literacy, reading—now perhaps the paradigmatic example of a non-screen-time activity—was considered ominous; people reading silently to themselves might have seemed demented.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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Still, Medicare costs could even out depending on which parts recipients are accessing based on their needs, according to Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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