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Recent Examples of urbanity
The original safari outfitter, Banana Republic’s recent designs nod to its adventurous heritage while maintaining a sophisticated urbanity.
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Ryan Haase, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
The original structure was designed in the 1920s, when Los Angeles officials enlisted the New York architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue to validate the city’s distinct urbanity with a landmark building on a prominent site downtown.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
These sounds have a way of transporting people and their mindsets away from the urbanity of the street, and also reflect that our language is alive, spoken intergenerationally by elders and children alike.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
To followers of society columns and fashion magazines, Lee Radziwill is the very model of international urbanity—perfectly coiffed and outfitted in Giorgio Armani (for whom the native New Yorker once served as director of special events) and Marc Jacobs.
—ELLE Decor, 22 Dec. 2022
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Ryan Haase, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
The original structure was designed in the 1920s, when Los Angeles officials enlisted the New York architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue to validate the city’s distinct urbanity with a landmark building on a prominent site downtown.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
These sounds have a way of transporting people and their mindsets away from the urbanity of the street, and also reflect that our language is alive, spoken intergenerationally by elders and children alike.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
To followers of society columns and fashion magazines, Lee Radziwill is the very model of international urbanity—perfectly coiffed and outfitted in Giorgio Armani (for whom the native New Yorker once served as director of special events) and Marc Jacobs.
—ELLE Decor, 22 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanity
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Bridal Headbands Headbands are here to stay, and this simple addition affords any look an air of sophistication.Kiana Murden, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
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Switzer says country club and prep are design aesthetics that balance sophistication with comfort, which never goes out of style.Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Jan. 2025
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But Jeopardy!, with its air of intellectualism, should have a higher barrier to entry.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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Both women have crises of faith in language, in intellectualism, in their role as a therapist and as a wife.Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, The Dollywood Foundation supports the Imagination Library and other programs that aid people in need and promote education and creativity.Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2025
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They are released into society as adults after spending crucial developmental years behind bars with limited access to education and training on the basics of how to live as independent individuals.Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Not everyone’s complexity gets celebrated in its time as erudition.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
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In a work of impressive range, erudition, and ambition, Overy, best known for his seminal histories of World War II, skillfully parses the development of psychological, biological, ecological, and anthropological theories of war and its triggers.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2024
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Immediately upon being plucked from the proverbial shadows of the backroom studio, Alessandro Michele astonished with his new Gucci, a house reawakened by an intriguing gentility rich with influences from antiquity to today’s urban culture.Bridget Foley, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
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There's also an emphasis on productivity and navigating your life with quiet confidence and gentility.Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
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Park Hill School District is enacting its first virtual learning day Monday.Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
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But at the time, the theory that providing children with stimulating activities would help them more than rote learning and academic drills was revolutionary.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
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Amplify Education Senior product marketing manager, literacy suite.Rachel Wells, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Some have criticized the notion of financial literacy as a distraction from the need to make the American financial system more equitable.Ann Carrns, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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