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New Yorker

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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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Stephen, a New Yorker who works in financial services, savored the chance to see the film at the AMC in Manhattan’s Kips Bay neighborhood, which is scheduled to close by the end of the year.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

A major retrospective argues that the New Yorker predicted today’s image-obsessed culture while it also emphasizes his radical approach to art-making in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Kyle Chayka, a journalist at The New Yorker focused on technology, says AI writing is now widely considered to be "generic, obsequious and banal".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Long story short, as a New Yorker might say, we had to take the subway everywhere, which was always an adventure.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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