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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

This denizen of the cloud forests shares pedigree with a fabled deity: Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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

In the new Yorgos Lanthimos film “Kinds of Kindness,” a character played by Emma Stone recounts a dream in which she was the denizen of a bizarre world.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

"This is one of his sentimental days. He's quite a character around New York--a denizen of Broadway."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Walters was incarcerated for a decade when he was suddenly discovered by online creators and reality TV denizens.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

All the denizens of Thoreau’s Cape Cod, from its scraggly scrub pine trees to its people, exemplify the humility that goes hand-in-hand with danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

And the exhibition tries to tell its story through the everyday life of its many denizens.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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

She knew plenty about this forest, knew that the denizens of this place had once been faeries: gnomes, sprites, nymphs, goblins, more names than anyone could count or remember.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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