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denizen

noun as in resident

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Within hours of arriving in Venice, he begins to suspect that the city itself, with its disorienting streets and shady denizens, is somehow in cahoots with his sphinxlike wife to betray him.

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And that people who live in rural areas had a slightly steeper drop in pleasure reading than urban denizens over the last two decades.

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Its removal, she added, would allow park denizens to stroll in “liberty and security.”

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Other denizens chose denial and willful ignorance, turning inward to a fantasyland where, somehow, everything was normal, even when it was not.

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The rep was correct that the boat’s denizens were veteran cruisers devoted to the ship’s luxe service and intimate nature.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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