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Recent Examples of cosmopolitanism
One of Singapore’s most attractive qualities is its cosmopolitanism, its openness to the world; Raffles embodies that spirit.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2026
For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms.
—Richard Nedjat-Haiem, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
Buddhist culture and ideas, which spread across Asia through the trade routes and communication networks of an early urban cosmopolitanism, have long had a deep affinity with technoculture.
—Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
The main obstacle will likely be the politics of immigration, where the tension between cosmopolitanism and national solidarity surfaces most clearly.
—Jeff D. Colgan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2026
For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms.
—Richard Nedjat-Haiem, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
Buddhist culture and ideas, which spread across Asia through the trade routes and communication networks of an early urban cosmopolitanism, have long had a deep affinity with technoculture.
—Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
The main obstacle will likely be the politics of immigration, where the tension between cosmopolitanism and national solidarity surfaces most clearly.
—Jeff D. Colgan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitanism
Noun
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His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Catherine’s house doesn’t evoke Hyde Park brownstones, or even urbanity, so much as some generic Midwest vista, which is not right for this play.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Reports suggest that these demonstrations highlight the sophistication of Atlas’s whole-body control system, pointing toward practical applications where robots must operate in complex, constrained environments.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
6 May 2026
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Longtime lovebirds Steph and Ayesha Curry also showed up, serving effortless sophistication, which is on brand for them.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
5 May 2026
Noun
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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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For the designer, worldliness and intellectualism go hand in hand.—
Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This intent aligned with the nation’s urgent emphasis on education as a defense against mob rule.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Tall served as Mali’s education and science minister from 2016 to 2017 and is the president of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative, a political party opposed to the military government.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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The nonprofit also marked Gianna’s birthday by announcing its latest round of scholarship recipients.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
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East Side Storage has promised to pay at least $27 million in property taxes over the course of those 20 years and pay between $1 million and $2 million in community benefits up front, as well as $50,000 in annual scholarships throughout the term of the project.—
Sofi Zeman
May 2,
Kansas City Star,
2 May 2026
Noun
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What are some learnings from putting together the first two festivals that have informed your work on the third?—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
4 May 2026
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The evidence is overwhelming that constant phone use is damaging attention, learning and mental health, and schools need the backing to enforce real limits.—
Linh Tat,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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Boston Public Schools laid out a new policy to tackle emerging issues of artificial intelligence in schools for the School Committee’s consideration, taking aim at regulating use in classrooms, technological literacy training and addressing harm to student through tools like deepfakes.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
7 May 2026
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The law sets aside $70 million to hire more than 1,300 literacy coaches to help improve reading skills among students statewide.—
La'Tasha Givens,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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“Cosmopolitanism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitanism. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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