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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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With gourmet kitchen facilities, multiple dining areas and cozy gathering spaces, Sky Ridge Retreat combines comfort, sophistication and mountain adventure for an unforgettable experience.Roger Sands, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Since Janine is straight out of her role at the district the level of sophistication of her style has elevated a tiny bit.Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 22 Dec. 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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According to a 2023 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, the education level of 31% of Tennesseans age 25 and older is a high school diploma or its equivalent.Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, low voter participation and civic engagement among U.S. citizen Latinos is partly a consequence of persistent poverty, lack of homeownership and lower income and education levels.Mike Madrid, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
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In a work of impressive range, erudition, and ambition, Overy, best known for his seminal histories of World War II, skillfully parses the development of psychological, biological, ecological, and anthropological theories of war and its triggers.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 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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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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The use of digital technologies and innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), wearables and apps, machine learning, surgical robots and predictive analytics allow providers to improve patient experience and outcomes, optimize operations and provide better access to care.Bishan Nandy, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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There are already health care tools that are built using machine learning.Michael Calore, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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Buy Now 08 of 20 'The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu' by Joshua Hammer The title says it all: Dads who love reading and championing literacy for others will also delight in this punchy historical account.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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The survey was previously administered in 2017, when 19% of U.S. adults ranked at the lowest levels of literacy.Joe Murphy, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Urbanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urbanity. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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