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as in suburbanite
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Recent Examples of urbanite
For a book that focused on Black and brown urbanites with Caribbean and Latine connections, my playlist artists included Sade, Beyoncé, Rubén Blades, Kaytranada, La India, Luther Vandross, H.E.R., Gloria Estefan, Bad Bunny and more, some of whom are directly referenced on the page.
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Clarence A. Haynes
july 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
That type of foresight would be shared with readers decades before all-black wardrobes would become common with urbanites in major cities.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
This progress has extended to informal settlements, the unplanned areas where the lowest-income urbanites live.
—Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
China's new urbanites have enduring ties to the land.
—Salvatore Babones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2015
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The film, which brings back Bob Odenkirk as a typical suburbanite who racks up a serious body count when not driving a minivan, is projected to earn between $10 million to $12 million from 3,200 North American theaters.—
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Kevin Nealon played Doug Wilson, a weed-loving suburbanite who gets tangled up in Nancy's drug business.—
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Alas, Jewish skeptics of Zionism who preferred to think of themselves as cosmopolitans found no reprieve.—
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The adjective cosmopolitan only begins to describe Sajet, who has had important life experiences on four continents.—
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Weak shaking has been recorded and several residents reported experiencing the tremor in Ridgecrest and the surrounding area according to the USGS DYFI report.—
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While the goal is to enhance safety, residents have some concerns.—
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Despite parents’ efforts, allowances aren’t necessarily minting a new generation of financial sophisticates.—
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Few things jar the delicate pretensions of the cocktail sophisticate so much as a drink with a chicken on top.—
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Ecuador ended 2025 as its most violent year on record, with a homicide rate of 52 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organized Crime.—
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The 57,000 inhabitants of Greenland deserve to have a say in this.—
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As for the documentary, that was spurred by Scorsese's trip to Polizzi Generosa, a town where her father's ancestors are from, in the Italian metropolitan of Palermo.—
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolitans, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
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Depending on gender, 60-year-old rural residents can expect to live 6 months to 2 years less than city-dwellers, one 2025 study found.—
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Apartment dwellers know better than anyone that being conservative with floor real estate isn’t a want, but a need.—
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“Urbanite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanite. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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