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denizen

[den-uh-zuhn] / ˈdɛn ə zən /


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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

Bravo, 37, plays swoon-worthy chef Gabriel on “Emily in Paris” and is a Paris denizen.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2025

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

Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream.

From Scientific American Nov. 3, 2023

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

The denizens of Hampden are under significant pressure to get the right manager from a limited pool.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

Before it was destroyed, Mariupol’s theater served as a bomb shelter whose denizens cut across social, economic and cultural classes.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

Or just to the days when the problems that have long racked L.A. didn’t lap up to the denizens of Prattland — until they did?

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 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

There was, in all of the denizens of the town, an expectation of riot, famine, and sickness.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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