often capitalized
: a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city
Examples of yuppie in a Sentence
Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
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Today’s young adults—so often stereotyped as quiet-quitters and socialist revolutionaries, driven by idealism and fixated on self-care—may seem a far cry from the suspenders-wearing yuppies of the Reagan era.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
Richard Simmons wasn’t for the yuppies and strivers, people who wanted or were able to embody the taut-tummied, plasticine-reared Suzanne Somers aesthetic.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
The director’s early films play like yuppie action pictures, with shrill arguments in dark rooms standing in for traditional action set pieces.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 June 2024
Arguably, the film is a sly satire of ’80s yuppies and the baby-boomers who abandoned their values to chase the stock market.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
Richard Simmons wasn’t for the yuppies and strivers, people who wanted or were able to embody the taut-tummied, plasticine-reared Suzanne Somers aesthetic.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
The director’s early films play like yuppie action pictures, with shrill arguments in dark rooms standing in for traditional action set pieces.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 June 2024
Arguably, the film is a sly satire of ’80s yuppies and the baby-boomers who abandoned their values to chase the stock market.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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