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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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China has progressively increased the sophistication of these sorties as well as their proximity to Taiwanese territory.David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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She’s drawn to the sophistication of London’s Connaught Bar but also takes inspiration from Analogue in Singapore, Lady Bee in Lima, and Himkok in Oslo, for their trailblazing creativity and sustainability.Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 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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Complement this with bite-sized learning modules that employees can access on-demand, making continuous learning more manageable and less disruptive to their daily work.Bret Fund, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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As a student ambassador for Wolf Lab, Bailey plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between students and innovative learning experiences, fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration.Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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The goal of the Family Place Libraries program is to encourage libraries to be a family-friendly environment and transform them into community centers for literacy, early childhood development, parent education and engagement, family support and community information.Barbara D. Hathaway, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The key lies in using these tools as part of a broader approach to content verification, combining technological solutions with critical thinking and digital literacy.Bernard Marr, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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