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denizen

[den-uh-zuhn] / ˈdɛn ə zən /


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In town, a crusty denizen relays to Sung-ae what he saw days ago in the forest, along with its digestive distress.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, a former Wall Street denizen, was a force behind the agreement.

From Barron's Mar. 1, 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

Another denizen of Miami’s canals, the huge snake was easily twelve feet long, with a spotted green-and-brown body as thick as Natalie’s leg.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Both books anchor their narratives around celebrities of their respective eras and make ample and illuminating use of diaries and correspondences—frequently between world leaders but also by soldiers, slave laborers, crime victims and nightclub denizens.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

And the exhibition tries to tell its story through the everyday life of its many denizens.

From BBC Apr. 3, 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

Neither he nor Kaspo- rio nor any of the other sellswords knew the fate of the denizens of Yezzan’s grotesquerie... but if Pretty Penny needed lies to stop her mooning, lie to her he would.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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