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New Yorker

British  

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of New York

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mr. Shear, a New Yorker, has made a movie that has an intuitive understanding of how the city’s random vectors intersect with each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

In a New Yorker article last year by a college professor, students characterized AI-enabled cheating as a widespread and resourceful way to avoid wasting time on material that didn’t interest them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

There were reluctant Americans, too, including Emily Hahn, a free-spirited writer for the New Yorker who fell for Maj.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

The charges ultimately collapsed, but not before putting Drake through a harrowing ordeal detailed by The New Yorker, “60 Minutes” and the documentary “Silenced.”

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026

She was probably a New Yorker raised in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart