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Recent Examples of urbanite
That type of foresight would be shared with readers decades before all-black wardrobes would become common with urbanites in major cities.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
With travel and quarantine restrictions, many Chinese urbanites headed outside of cities, fuelling a rural tourism boom, while influencers like Li Ziqi drew large followings to their posts about the idyllic countryside.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
China's new urbanites have enduring ties to the land.
—Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2015
Delights in young urbanites, who have pivoted their city careers to pursue a collective rural quest: growing exceptional rice.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
With travel and quarantine restrictions, many Chinese urbanites headed outside of cities, fuelling a rural tourism boom, while influencers like Li Ziqi drew large followings to their posts about the idyllic countryside.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
China's new urbanites have enduring ties to the land.
—Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2015
Delights in young urbanites, who have pivoted their city careers to pursue a collective rural quest: growing exceptional rice.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanite
Noun
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Is whiskey a man’s spirit, while women are only allowed to sip cosmopolitans?—
Jessi Roti,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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Protect yourself during a flood with these tips from the NWS For either residents or campers of flood-prone, low-lying areas, take immediate action and seek higher ground.—
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Updated July 14,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 July 2025
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Nine people have died after a fire broke out at a Massachusetts assisted living facility overnight, leaving residents hanging out of windows screaming for help, according to authorities.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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The Friend is Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s class-conscious lament for how urban sophisticates (Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane) deny but can’t escape spiritual obligations.—
Armond White,
National Review,
9 July 2025
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How things have changed: My interlocutor was one member of a large and diverse constituency of urban sophisticates who espouse comparable positions, not infrequently in the same gratingly defiant terms.—
Ian Volner,
Artforum,
28 May 2025
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The inhabitants of that vehicle told police that Calicut’s only passenger, Isaiah Bruce Phillip, was the person who shot at them.—
Matt Moret,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
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Guthrie, 53, confirmed that Ross was listing the inhabitants of her carry on luggage only.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
21 July 2025
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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
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Han, looking almost cartoonishly mid-century metropolitan, wears a dark coat, with the lapel snapped up, over a white shirt and a dark tie.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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