cosmopolitan

Example Sentences

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In the 19th and 20th centuries, it helped the city become a bustling metropolis, home to sizable European diasporas and a distinct cosmopolitan culture.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Now, next to South Africa's innovative and cosmopolitan set-up, it seems to be slowing them down.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

“The Migrant Kitchen,” from PBS SoCal, explores our cosmopolitan food culture and the immigrants who create it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025

On a recent day this winter, a cosmopolitan mix of convicts mingled in the camp’s exercise yards and worked out in the outdoor gym.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Perhaps this was the result of growing up in Muscatine with a cosmopolitan mother who’d always urged her son to live “as if for eternity.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French