as in sophisticated
having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience
a college student who now seems conspicuously cosmopolitan after spending his junior year abroad
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as in sophisticate
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
as someone who had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, she seemed very much the cosmopolitan to her old classmates
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Recent Examples of cosmopolitan
Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Like most lifelong residents in this politically red area, Cummings is proud of Worthington’s cosmopolitan flair, thriving economy and booming population.
—Giovanna Dell'orto, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
At the other end of the spectrum are cosmopolitans, who believe that states should treat all humans equally.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2023
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Adjective
Like Trump, Carlson appeals to his base by positioning himself as a class traitor—not a man of the people, exactly, but an apostate from the cosmopolitan élite.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Like most lifelong residents in this politically red area, Cummings is proud of Worthington’s cosmopolitan flair, thriving economy and booming population.
—Giovanna Dell'orto, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
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In fact, Americans don’t usually refer to themselves as Yanks, but cosmopolitans who have lived all over the world (people like, say, O’Neill) sometimes do.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
At the other end of the spectrum are cosmopolitans, who believe that states should treat all humans equally.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2023
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Beyond basic chatbot capabilities, companies are racing to develop more sophisticated AI tools.Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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One is the dusty mine where the Guggenheim family made their fortune, prior to founding the sophisticated Guggenheim Museum in New York City.James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
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Want to make your witch a mid-century modern sophisticate?James Powel, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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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“Cosmopolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmopolitan. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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