denizen

Example Sentences

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I was nonplussed at a 1992 symposium in Vienna when a hall filled with international art world denizens went absolutely wild, cheering and stomping when Kelley was introduced on a panel.

From Los Angeles Times

Lobbying expenditures by all the denizens of the MIC are even higher — more than $247 million in the last two election cycles.

From Salon

“The late, beloved Eric Priestley, denizen of Watts and Leimert Park, and before that rural Louisiana, wrote a novel that came out in ‘85: ‘Raw Dog.’

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, the vast majority revolve around red dwarfs, diminutive cousins of our own star that are by far the most common stellar denizens of the Milky Way.

From Scientific American

The same amino acid substitution occurs in black rockcod, a deep-sea denizen found around Antarctica that can also see blue light.

From Science Magazine