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- adjective Of, or from,
Manhattan - noun Someone from
Manhattan .
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Examples
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A great inspiration, to take madhat commenters whose positions are perhaps not *that* far off from the average Manhattanite, which is what I am and see what the amusing extrapolation from thatis.
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Liebling wrote many fine pieces, but this thin (in both senses of the word) and angry book (one suspects he suffered some awful humiliation in the Second City), taken from a series of articles he wrote for The New Yorker during his nearly year-long stay in the city in 1949 and 1950, exemplifies the worst kind of Manhattanite's sneering parochialism and willful ignorance of the lands beyond the Hudson. fiction
Cheap at $13,000 2004
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Liebling wrote many fine pieces, but this thin (in both senses of the word) and angry book (one suspects he suffered some awful humiliation in the Second City), taken from a series of articles he wrote for The New Yorker during his nearly year-long stay in the city in 1949 and 1950, exemplifies the worst kind of Manhattanite's sneering parochialism and willful ignorance of the lands beyond the Hudson. fiction
Cheap at $13,000 2004
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Liebling wrote many fine pieces, but this thin (in both senses of the word) and angry book (one suspects he suffered some awful humiliation in the Second City), taken from a series of articles he wrote for The New Yorker during his nearly year-long stay in the city in 1949 and 1950, exemplifies the worst kind of Manhattanite's sneering parochialism and willful ignorance of the lands beyond the Hudson. fiction
Cheap at $13,000 2004
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Even his most overt critics had to concede that Bobby was in many ways the paragon of a certain Wall Street gestalt — the guy was a success, beloved by a particular class of Manhattanite, sometimes called to appear on CNBC or Bloomberg or some other fawning business program, and his shirts were uniformly two-tone and monogrammed.
Under the Buttonwood Tree (Excerpt) Joshua Moses 2011
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Whether you're a Manhattanite, or an Iowan, traveling back and forth to Brooklyn can be an arduous process.
Visit Brooklyn's Newest Bed & Breakfast (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Look, we learned exactly how tough Nigel Coleman is when he shamefully sold out his alleged principles boldly endorsed that overprivileged Manhattanite rebel Robert Hurt for Congress.
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But the curators of this exhibition — Ed Rawlings, an architect, and Jim Walrod, an interior designer — underscore the dissonance between Rudolph, whom they describe in the catalog as "a gay Manhattanite with C-list celebrity status," and the political hot potato that was Lomex.
Indignation Superhighway Julie V. Iovine 2010
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This young Manhattanite happens to work in the clothing industry; her company sells overstock brand-name clothes at a steep discount.
Did Someone Say Tech Bubble? Bari Weiss 2011
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A high-tech magnate attending the Herzliya conference was candid about his negative views of the religious settlers not unlike a Manhattanite might scornfully refer to "Bible Belters" and told me, "Just because something is mine, doesn't mean I have to exercise that right."
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