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Recent Examples of urbanity
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.
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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
Destry’s actions create the conditions for the next two sections, in which Sask-E goes from a Pleistocene-like ecology bare of any humans to a dense urbanity full of landlords and renters of multiple species.
—Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
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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
Destry’s actions create the conditions for the next two sections, in which Sask-E goes from a Pleistocene-like ecology bare of any humans to a dense urbanity full of landlords and renters of multiple species.
—Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanity
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His jazz roots influenced his work across genres, bringing a sense of sophistication and complexity to popular music, while making jazz more accessible to broader audiences.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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His comments were often comedic due to their bluntness and lack of sophistication.Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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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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Virgo Pallas in Virgo has the capacity to heal and bring intellectualism to matters.Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
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Shelly is poised to finish her long years of education by completing a two-year fellowship.Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
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Musk promised to find $2 trillion in savings, which could mean sharp cuts in domestic programs for education, health and housing; defense spending; and the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs.Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The long first act drags near the finish, its erudition blurring into dramatic monotony.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 June 2024
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Horowitz’s erudition, combined with his energy, is a powerful sales tool.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 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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But over the last decade and a half, the goal of learning has given way to proxies for learning: grades and degrees.Karin Klein, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Preventing the production of this protein prevented the recall of the memory of the learning experience in question.Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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In response, Meta has invested millions in its election fact-checking and media literacy initiatives and prohibits ads that discourage users from voting, question the election’s legitimacy or feature premature victory claims.Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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True Tamplin covers topics in finance and business, with a focus on financial literacy, personal finance, and entrepreneurship.True Tamplin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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