denizen
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Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, a former Wall Street denizen, was a force behind the agreement.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
First as a denizen of New York’s tabloid culture and then as the star of TV’s faux-boardroom drama, “The Apprentice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
I'm a lifelong denizen of several campuses, and I never felt comfortable hearing how ready these folks seemed with a diagnosis of life at American universities.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
In the new Yorgos Lanthimos film “Kinds of Kindness,” a character played by Emma Stone recounts a dream in which she was the denizen of a bizarre world.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
He is a sophisticate, a weekend denizen of New York’s theater district, a clotheshorse.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Walters was incarcerated for a decade when he was suddenly discovered by online creators and reality TV denizens.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The denizens of Hampden are under significant pressure to get the right manager from a limited pool.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Smog from 2 million tailpipes filled L.A.’s streets and burned the lungs of its denizens, but it was really created more than 2,000 miles away, in Detroit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
The denizens of San Lorenzo are unlikely to have shared Europeans' dismay at the physical deformity portrayed in these images.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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