denizen
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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
"This is one of his sentimental days. He's quite a character around New York--a denizen of Broadway."
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
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
Most of what he heard he’d learned in Sisterton, from Lord Godric or the denizens of the Belly of the Whale.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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