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popular dance music incorporating elements of rap, rhythm-and-blues, funk, and soul.

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How to use urban contemporary in a sentence

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement|Charlise Ferguson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Young, hip, urban millennials are using tools like Instagram to become one of the fastest growing travel markets.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement|Charlise Ferguson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
His New Deal Coalition brought together Southerners, Northern ethnic minorities, and urban blacks under the same banner.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The former provides entrepreneurial training and educational programs for youths from low-income urban areas around the world.
Streetwear pioneer, visionary entrepreneur, and community mentor Daymond John is honored with Hennessy Privilege Award|Hennessy|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He was contemporary with Milton, and preferred before him by critics of the day, but has now sunk into oblivion.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
But while the older schools of art delighted him, he followed with no less attention the movement of contemporary painting.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
Why therefore did the elder Amati, contemporary and probably pupil of Gaspar di Salo, change the model and size of the instrument?
Violins and Violin Makers|Joseph Pearce
We gather that in our contemporary's opinion it is high time that our Universities recognised "the writing on the wall."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920|Various
Decollat,” says a contemporary document, with a grim succinctness, “in castrum Londin: vulgo turris appellatur.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper