1
as in nationals
a person who owes allegiance to a government and is protected by it
conscientious citizens who regard voting as a duty as well as a right
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2
as in villagers
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
claimed that the good citizens of the town were sick of high property taxes
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Recent Examples of citizens
According to Smith, citizens of East Florida even burned the leaders behind the Declaration of Independence in effigy.
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Hank Tester,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
But Trump responded by urging Congress to adopt through legislation the restrictions against allowing the children of temporary visitors or undocumented immigrants become citizens.
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Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
The proposal takes aim at Missouri’s century-old initiative petition process, a form of direct democracy that allows citizens to collect signatures to place policies on the ballot.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
30 June 2026
Monaco’s population of 38,000 is multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.
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Philippe Magoni,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens.
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Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
André Duvenhage, research director at South Africa’s North-West University, said migrants are often hired because employers see them as willing to work for lower wages and, as non-citizens, they are typically not protected by as many labor protections.
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Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
Yet these easy luxuries have simultaneously raised the entitlement of citizens and their expectations of largesse from their underfunded, over-bureaucratized, overpromising governments, which are left seeming slow and inept.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Organized public spaces where citizens could see the arts took a while longer.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2026
Hank Tester,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
But Trump responded by urging Congress to adopt through legislation the restrictions against allowing the children of temporary visitors or undocumented immigrants become citizens.
—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
The proposal takes aim at Missouri’s century-old initiative petition process, a form of direct democracy that allows citizens to collect signatures to place policies on the ballot.
—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
30 June 2026
Monaco’s population of 38,000 is multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.
—
Philippe Magoni,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens.
—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
André Duvenhage, research director at South Africa’s North-West University, said migrants are often hired because employers see them as willing to work for lower wages and, as non-citizens, they are typically not protected by as many labor protections.
—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
Yet these easy luxuries have simultaneously raised the entitlement of citizens and their expectations of largesse from their underfunded, over-bureaucratized, overpromising governments, which are left seeming slow and inept.
—
Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
Organized public spaces where citizens could see the arts took a while longer.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for citizens
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Citing national security concerns, foreign nationals were abruptly banned access to the systems last month—so Anthropic took them both down.
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Anthropic suspended its most capable models last month after the government ordered the company to curtail access for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.
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Thousands of people attend the festivities, during which villagers wearing 18th-century period costumes reenact the 1781 Siege of Pensacola, a turning point in the American Revolution.
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There were ten of us, with several large sacks of nonperishable items—canned fish, soap, bottled water—along with more than six hundred arepas that the villagers had cooked the night before.
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These are some of the asks of residents in communities around the country.
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Elsewhere, residents have resorted to digging cesspits as latrine stocks run severely low, leading to soil and water contamination, according to Hosni Nadeem Mohanna, a water municipality spokesperson in Gaza City.
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The reef itself becomes the subject, inviting viewers to imagine its vastness from the perspective of one of its smallest inhabitants.
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For anyone wanting to see or experience the sites and vestiges of Miami’s ancient inhabitants, the people known as Tequesta and their even more enigmatic Archaic forebears, there are only a few places to go.
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“Citizens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citizens. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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