urbanite

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Recent Examples of urbanite The bottom line: For urbanites who are looking to avoid traffic jams and brake lights, Consumer Affairs says St. Louis; Rochester, New York; Oklahoma City, Cleveland and Richmond, Virginia, have the nation's lowest traffic scores. Meira Gebel, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024 Ensuring that the urbanites were happy and satisfied was key to the political system’s staying power and ability to maintain order. Damien Ma, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2015 But Chicago’s urbanites were passionate devotees of races at Soldier Field, which hosted a number of them during the mid-20th century. Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2024 So has the arrival of big city urbanites in search of affordable real estate, greener locales, and opportunities to be difference-makers in their communities. Richard E. Ocejo, TIME, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for urbanite 
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Noun
  • Wildlife fanatics flock to Masai Mara for once-in-a-lifetime safaris, beach lovers island-hop through the turquoise waters of the Lamu Archipelago, and cosmopolitans appreciate Nairobi's growing culinary and art scene.
    Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Just like globalization forced us all to become cosmopolitans (citizens of the universe) by breaking spatial boundaries, the aging of the internet compels us to become archeopolitans—citizens of an archive—by breaking down temporal boundaries.
    Carl Öhman, TIME, 31 July 2024
Noun
  • Pre-evacuation notices were issued Thursday morning to residents in Granby, Granby Ranch and to areas from Grand Elk to Hot Sulphur Springs and from Grant County Road 55 to Grand County Road 88.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The incident was declared under control at 1:04 p.m. Fire officials advised residents and travelers to avoid the area between Foothill Boulevard and East 19th Street along 24th Avenue due to ongoing emergency response operations.
    Ryan Macasero, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Want to make your witch a mid-century modern sophisticate?
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Those are welcome at the box office, but would face a steep climb with the film Academy’s growing crowd of international sophisticates.
    Michael Cieply, Deadline, 1 July 2024
Noun
  • The earthquakes and violent eruption completely buried the inhabitants of the small Roman town of Pompeii.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
  • His essays from that time describe the strange and necessary intimacies that develop among the inhabitants of nations in free fall.
    Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Fort Myers Known as the gateway to Southwest Florida, Fort Myers is an all-in-one vacation destination that effortlessly blends a vibrant metropolitan with tranquil beaches, cultural attractions, and great dining.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The program was founded in 2018 with the goal of enticing knowledge workers to a budding metropolitan that could no longer be as reliant on the volatile gas and oil industries that represented a boom for Tulsa in the twentieth century, according to Tulsa Remote managing director Justin Harlan.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024

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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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