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Recent Examples of urbanity
Their company, Southland Stories, is designed to bring to the screen the life and culture of the American South, which has been overshadowed by urbanity in pop culture, in Charlamagne’s view.
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
In this volume, the designer reflects deeply on the diverse aesthetics of French urbanity versus rural living.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
Hancock County: Pennsy Trail The Greenfield section of the Pennsy Trail features art installations, a playground and a bike share program to give visitors a foliage experience that melds urbanity with nature.
—Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urbanity
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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.—
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Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.—
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SuperSoft Fleece Half-Zip Marrying the roominess of a classic zip-up with the sophistication of a collared shirt, this style is all about relaxation thanks to the stretchy Tencel modal, spandex, and polyester-blend material.—
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Blackpink singer and The White Lotus star exuded sultry sophistication in a black sheer Jacquemus gown with billowing sleeves accented with tassels, along with Intimissimi underpinnings.—
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Also, Dustin’s girlfriend is at his level and an equal, a testimony to his airy intellectualism.—
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Look, this isn’t a lament against intellectualism.—
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Many young consumers, already juggling high costs for food, rent, and education, and crushed by an unsympathetic labor market, are entering adulthood with the self-care budget of a socialite twice their age.—
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The food hub's work now focuses more on education.—
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Gene would use the erudition as a weapon on Ebert and vice versa.—
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In a better world, novels of this level of sophistication, beauty, erudition, ambiguity, and play would come along more frequently and dominate the literary discourse.—
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In modernizing and Americanizing the Charles Dickens novel, Alfonso Cuarón expunged many of Great Expectations’s subplots in favor of a 1998-friendly romantic drama that cemented Paltrow as an emblem of gentility.—
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Ferrara’s arrival in New York City and subsequent entry into the movie business is presented as something like a case of recidivism, a dive from suburban gentility into the cauldron of steaming garbage that was Fun City–era Manhattan.—
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Without norms that support learning, accountability, and adaptation, insight is treated as advisory rather than actionable.—
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The district will not move to e-learning, which is only allowed for severe weather, but will continue to collaborate with the city and other partners on emergency preparedness and response, the news release says.—
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Wiesner-Smillie has nothing but praise for this longtime volunteer, who has not only committed so much one-on-one tutoring time but also holds fun literacy games for all the students during their morning breaks at the center.—
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The Associated Press receives support from Charles Schwab Foundation for educational and explanatory reporting to improve financial literacy.—
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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