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cosmopolitan

[koz-muh-pol-i-tn] / ˌkɒz məˈpɒl ɪ tn /


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For example, common genetic variants associated with openness to experience were linked to a greater likelihood that someone would move to a more cosmopolitan neighborhood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

He develops a reputation for aggression, seemingly fighting a war against everyone on the asphalt that spins out when he attempts to bully a cosmopolitan French driver into submission.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Now the dream has turned into a nightmare for many in the cosmopolitan oasis who have given their lives and fortunes to foster "human unity in diversity" and "the transformation of consciousness".

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

His dual nationality and peripatetic, bi-cultural upbringing, combined with travel grants in 1927 and 1949 that took him all over Europe, Asia and North Africa, produced arguably the most cosmopolitan artist of his generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

His proposal was seductive, and so was Smyrna, the most cosmopolitan city in the Near East.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

We’re a diverse people but still a people, not a random aggregation of cosmopolitans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

In nearly every episode the ladies gather at a restaurant to dissect whatever issues are bedeviling them that week, a device "Sex and the City" employed with enough success to make brunch and cosmopolitans fashionable.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2022

On the Grand Princess, crowds formed at the buffets, grills and pizzerias; drinkers lifted cosmopolitans and lemontinis at the bars; the new plague multiplied invisibly among passengers and crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

Localists and cosmopolitans clashed repeatedly over economic policy, beginning with the question of Loyalist property.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Through The Mecca I saw that we were, in our own segregated body politic, cosmopolitans.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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