citizens

Example Sentences

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India’s youthful population is more interested in domestic consumption—buying cars, houses, and so on—than citizens in export-focused nations like China and Japan.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Trust in institutions and fellow citizens has declined, and many young people have come of age amid political polarization, technological and economic change, unhinged social media, Covid-era isolation and geopolitical uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“We have been working within this system as private citizens for really a long time, and that’s the truth.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Many projects, like the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial and African American history museum, began as the deferred dreams of ordinary citizens.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

As early as the 1930s, for example, his unit covertly read the telegrams of private citizens.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield