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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.
—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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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.—
Adam Louis-Klein,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
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One of Singapore’s most attractive qualities is its cosmopolitanism, its openness to the world; Raffles embodies that spirit.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
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Rather than offering a reverential homage, the concept recalls the original’s aggressive sophistication, while integrating bleeding-edge advancements.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
17 June 2026
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The gradually emergent upstairs-downstairs theme was explored with more sophistication on The White Lotus.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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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.—
Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
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The mix of academic-level intellectualism and gross-out outrageousness fits the mood Riley wants to conjure.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Mike Stobbe,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
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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.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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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.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Nicholas Boggs,
The Atlantic,
22 Apr. 2026
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Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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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.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2026
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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.—
Mila Koumpilova,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
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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.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2026
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Parton, a long-time literacy advocate, created the Imagination Library to give free books to kids and has been working with Reading Ready Pittsburgh for eight years.—
Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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In the nineteenth century, upper class American women who had leisure time and literacy became really into keeping floral calendars to note when wildflowers bloomed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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