as in cosmopolitan
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
a TV series about the lives and loves of a group of young, attractive metropolitans
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Recent Examples of metropolitan
Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
The international metropolitan is strategically located in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), an economic powerhouse with a GDP of about US$2 trillion in 2023.
—Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
The city’s office vacancy rate stands at 30 percent, the highest in the nation, and job loss is the largest of any major metropolitan area.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
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Noun
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
The international metropolitan is strategically located in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), an economic powerhouse with a GDP of about US$2 trillion in 2023.
—Familyofficehk Contributor, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
On Wednesday, the American Lung Association ranked the Denver-Aurora-Greeley metropolitan area as the sixth-worst city for ozone pollution in the nation.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
The city’s office vacancy rate stands at 30 percent, the highest in the nation, and job loss is the largest of any major metropolitan area.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for metropolitan
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The season’s final scene was with Seema (Choudhury) and Carrie drinking cosmopolitans on the beach in Greece.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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Billionaire cosmopolitans who want to hire immigrants don’t mix easily with vehemently nativist populists who want to ratchet up taxes on said billionaires.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Liberty Macarena’s location is the latest of several metro Mexican restaurants to close.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2025
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For example, in 2020 Democrats saw a net gain in the metro Milwaukee suburbs of about 25,000 votes compared to 2016, enough by itself to cost Trump the state.—
Craig Gilbert,
Journal Sentinel,
25 Nov. 2024
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Neither film mentions the pandemic, but both show how a circle of moneyed, urban sophisticates represses feelings about death and anxiety.—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Apr. 2025
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Its release comes amid a burgeoning arms race for salary cap tools and sophisticates.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Blending Islamic and secular visions for the new nation, the five pillars are a belief in God, civilized humanity, national unity, democracy, and social justice for all.—
Lindsey McGinnis,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 May 2025
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Far removed from and entirely without protection of the courts of civilized life, these fortune-seekers made laws to meet their varying emergencies.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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Housed in a 300-year-old colonial mansion, Amparo feels more like the private residence of a cultured friend than a hotel.—
Michaela Trimble,
Vogue,
28 Apr. 2025
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Gregg’s dance school, at the Bachelors’ Club in rural Tarbolton, was a steppingstone on Burns’s path to becoming cultured and, Innes said, most likely a place to meet women.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Metropolitan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolitan. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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