yuppie

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Researchers concluded that some of these advantages stemmed from natural ability and the rest from nurturing, writing, “You just can’t create a gifted child from scratch like Yuppie pasta.”

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

Yes, the Yippie was gradually morphing into the Yuppie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2017

Within a year, Die Yuppie Scum was not only a graffiti standard but was also a T-shirt, and “Meet me in Tompkins Square” was a refrain in a Lou Reed song.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2017

Which is not to say that he won’t suddenly turn on a private voice or vanish inside a Marin County Yuppie for a spell.

From Newsweek

Silicon Valley is the Yuppie stronghold, and the computer boom has contributed significantly to the renewed faith in American ingenuity and, more broadly, in the American dream of boundless opportunity.

From Time Magazine Archive