How To Use Yuppie In A Sentence
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The vast majority of its members playacting as class warriors are well-heeled yuppies.
The Sun
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This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
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Or dumping enough toxic plastic waste into the ocean that it forms huge islands of yuck as far as the eye can see so Yuppies can drink pints of filtered tap water in throw-away bottles just to prove how Yuppie-fied they are.
Channeling Religious Impulses
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Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie.
Archive 2006-04-01
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Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching.
NEW YORK DEAD
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Even while electrifying the cosmopolite yuppies with hard rock, heavy metal and thrash metal, he has pop and slow rock numbers in plenty in his quiver.
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Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time...
SF Connect 2: We're Doers Not Critics
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That does seem to be the important push these days - convincing people that sustainable food, clothing, practices etc. are more mainstream than the traditional image of unwashed hippies eating lentils while wearing hemp in their off-the-grid log cabin - or the more modern but still unappealing yuppie couple who ride bicycles everywhere, use cloth diapers and recycle their dishwater, and eat tofurky.
Stylish and sustainable
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Perhaps that was you, the pudgy little yuppie-boy, who wouldn't budge even an inch to let me get a drink at the bar?
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There were even people playing football in the yuppie village this evening.
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The second group of tenants consists of what I call the yuppies: younger professional people — stockbrokers and journalists and attorneys.
Big Deal: How I Do It My Way
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As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics.
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The rows of motorbikes parked in front of the toddy shop betrays its large patronage among the yuppie crowd.
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This was the rise of the baby boom generation - and young upwardly mobile professionals, known as yuppies.
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When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep.
DEAD BEAT
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When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep.
DEAD BEAT
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Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching.
NEW YORK DEAD
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This can be a very tough area - yuppies and artists mixing it with the desperate homeless and the families on welfare.
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It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.
A Happy Marriage
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The Porsche 911 reminds me of the worst parts of the yuppie era.
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It included a photo of a "No yuppies" tag captioned "Despite the bounty, free speech still reigns in the 47 Ward.
Chicago Reader
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Every once in a while there will be a fad for something-like the present yuppie cupcake business- trading on some sort of mix of nostalgia and camp, but for the most part, there's that unfortunate association with junkiness.
Cake
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Besides OFWs, the profile of homebuyers is diversifying to include the so-called yuppies who are employed in fast-moving technology companies as well as international finance firms, not to mention the moneyed individuals-both native as well as foreign-who have learned to invest their surplus capital in real estate.
Latest News
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Mr. Philbrick, who lives around the corner from Ms. Thayer, called the remodeled homes in the neighborhood "perfect embodiments of some yuppie nightmare.
Living History in Nantucket
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He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort.
YELLOW BIRD
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Grunge has been a recurrent theme in fashion since the early 1990s, when rockers like Cobain transformed kilts, moth-eaten sweaters and lumberjack plaids into the insignia of yuppie revolt.
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I don't know if this is ‘yuppie,’ but I only drink microbrews or imported beer.
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It used to be only the City yuppie, but now most people can afford a mobile phone.
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But they have fallen into the clutches of certain people not as desirable as the Yuppie overman.
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Club Med is the renowned retreat for lustful yuppies.
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Tens of thousands of people now live and work in Docklands, rather more yuppie financial types than the swarthy dockers of old.
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Imagine a 50-foot-tall pair of what we once called yuppies, stepping forward in the familiar manner of the lawn jockey (an ante-bellum lawn ornament that sensitive rich people began replacing in the late 1980s with concrete geese).
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And for the hammerers and welders, riveters and panel beaters, shipwrights and stevedores slaving away daily, they can gaze at those portions of the docks turned into yuppie havens and dream of perhaps, one day, moving up and in.
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You get a load of yuppie petrolheads in fast cars [who] career across a series of foreign countries, dodging indigenous police forces and smashing speed limits.
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The suburbs too are spinning their capitalist webs, ensnaring yuppies and college punks.
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011
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The dialogue is far from special as all the oiks talk like Ali G, and our yuppies talk in cliché and use words like "brewski".
DVD Times
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I requested it on a whim — since I thought this sort of pleasantly mellow, yuppieish music would be good for the aborted magazine column’s readership.
2007 February : Scrubbles.net
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Twenty years later, yuppies all over the world will pay fortunes for any old studio described by overimaginative Realtors as “lofts,” but back then they were cold spaces in deserted and often undesirable parts of town.
The Pirate’s Dilemma
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They used to be called nouveau riche, then yuppies, then something else - yet now they are so prevalent, what do you call them?
KIDS!
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Look you oik, either you pay up or we'll turn over your plot to a local yuppie who really deserves it.
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However, with the addition of an arcade of brand-name boutiques, the Raffles' former aristocratic hauteur seems to have been traded for a sort of self-conscious post-yuppie consumerism.
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Still, it won't the the only thing on that peninsula that's becoming a rich person's plaything, judging by the flash cars purring in and out of the yuppie village.
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Get ride of the entitled yuppie scum & self important egotists … Gilbert, where the buck are you from, california? new york? jeeze …
Statesman - AP Sports
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He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort.
YELLOW BIRD
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The yuppie apostles of the ‘new economy’ will also be humbled by a plunging stock market.
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We can send the yuppies running, eradicate the trustafarians, obliterate the trendoids.
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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But to watch yuppie parents squirm with dread and confusion when anything in their households goes on the fritz is to wonder whether it was such a bad thing for one half of the marriageable population to know how to mend a fallen hem and the other to have rudimentary knowledge of the workings of a fuse box.
Leaving It to the Professionals
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Way before 3/4ths of you were even alive, Grasso invented disco mixing by blending heavy rock and heavy funk (Santana, JB, War, etc.) for a rabid audience of newly sexually liberated future yuppies, guppies, and buppies.
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Yuppie scum are buying a product called "rimming sugar", do you think they even know what "rimming" is?
Archive 2005-07-01
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This was a perfectly nice Polish neighborhood before you guys decided to move in, open up your hip bars, and generally make the area more inhabitable for the Yuppies.
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The current proposals are being overviewed this month, but is the yuppie public ready to buy ‘market rate’ condos in Woodward's?
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To me, Cabbagetown is a sometimes hilarious mix between dollar-store and yuppie, with some great mid-range too.
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miles credit card of a masochistic inframaxillary unpaved undone out his yuppie in virgin, imposingly alexandrite, csa.
Rational Review
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You can't expect to be free to work the street in areas used extensively by gentrified yuppies.
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Why don't they mention the yuppies or the businessmen who have a skinful on a Friday night in the wine bar after work?
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Perrier's coy advertising, aimed at yuppies everywhere, made bottled water fashionable.
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Once only a few precious Yuppies had cellphones, now every burglar has at least one mobile.
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In case after case, from somnambulism to neurasthenia to ‘Yuppie flu,’ we see how medical and cultural trends alternately reinforce and erode particular psychosomatic symptoms.
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Richard Chamberlain: The sound of King Lear pitching Eldorados, Didn't the Yuppie-angst thing die with "thirtysomething"?
Pitching With The Stars
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Another unforeseen bit of business: yuppies started paying half a million for a condo on the canal, right next to the smoky old factory.
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The yuppies in the burbs of Austin, Houston and Dallas don't have anything to worry about, and if they did, they would just sell their house for a profit.
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Guber, the quintessential New Age yuppie, is seen heading off his divorce because it would cost him too much, and participating in hand-holding group therapy sessions with business partner Peters.
Archive 2005-12-01
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He lived the high life as a London yuppie and threw it all away to work with the poor and destitute in Liverpool slums.
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Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express.
'24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
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Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express.
'24, 7, 365' review: Perpetual state of angst can be hard to handle
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He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort.
YELLOW BIRD
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One of the more noteworthy conflicts of the earlier series saw Ozzy and family tormenting the nouveau yuppies over the back fence for their appalling taste in music.
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Yuppies are a prime target group for marketing strategies.
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When I got downstairs, a prosperous-looking yuppie was waiting on our doorstep.
DEAD BEAT
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North of the famous commercial area, the Loop, converted factory lofts now house art galleries and yuppie advertising agencies.
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They created the teenager , the yuppie, the baby boomer, the singleton and the metrosexual.
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Where once there were thriving communities with neat rows of terraced houses there are now large, soulless sink estates pockmarked with yuppie designer nightmares thrown up in the eighties.
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The real reason why liberal yuppie elitist Jews hate Sarah so much and make so many snarky comments about her is that she’s succeeded despite a Harvard-Princeton-Yale degree, despite a wonkish sensibility, despite a neo-colonialist tourist roquet view of the world.
Matthew Yglesias » Palin and the Jews
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Surely the hipster yuppies and rich old fogeys will appreciate the urban artistic expression dignifying the view from the windows of their posh homes.
You Know Where to Find Me
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Essentially, they are attempting to dichotomize the environmental movement between hopeless anti-modern romantic yuppies, engaged in symbolic activities, and the sober modernists (exemplified by themselves) who celebrate and promote economic expansion as the only real way to address environmental degradation.
Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute
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`They keep putting us off with murmurings of entrepreneurs and quick-buck merchants -- yuppie treason, someone called it.
THE LAST RAVEN
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He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort.
YELLOW BIRD
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It saw rapid expansion as the niche became - in yuppie fashion - mainstream.
Starbucks to Double Its Purchase of Fair Trade Coffee in 2009
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The yuppie crowds love the concept and organisers swear that these events are extremely popular.
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Yuppies are a prime target group for marketing strategies.
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The whole area was full of tourists looking lost, families looking bored and yuppies looking drunk.
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Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching.
NEW YORK DEAD
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The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to an 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s.
LA IMC
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Harlem is a relatively harmless, rather dull patch of a great city still garnering a tiny cachet among the local yuppies because it used to have quite a spunky black community.
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He contents himself with a class analysis of the attractiveness of the sport to yuppie parents.
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This was the rise of the baby boom generation - and young upwardly mobile professionals, known as yuppies.
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He was disappointed in her choice of restaurant, a noisy, yuppie hang-out, the sort of place where design took precedence over comfort.
YELLOW BIRD
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So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
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So the "key aspirations" of egalitarian liberals and social conservatives are "broadly in consonance" with ruining the lives of poor immigrants in order to cut native-born yuppies down to size?
Malevolent Aspirations, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
