citizenry
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈsɪtɪzənri/
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ciudadanía
- A beleaguered police force and a weary citizenry have been left with so little to cling to.
- an informed citizenry
- an educated citizenry
- participation of the citizenry
Can't you still manipulate the idea that the citizenry still has those rights?
- Can't you still manipulate the idea that the citizenry still has those rights?
- Not just to serve yourself, but to strengthen our citizenry.
- We pay taxes so the federal government can keep us safe and assist its citizenry when national disasters strike.
- And the Chinese digital currency is a part of a broader plan to impose government will on its citizenry, right?
- you know, the values that we would all hope to have as a global citizenry, the more that we will judiciously take action in a thoughtful way.
- And they continue to brainwash their citizenry to where they actively go out and keep voting for more and more pain.
- The people in power, whether this is central bank shareholders or politicians or whoever, have rules that they promulgate and impose on the citizenry.
- So group them into nations based on their citizenry.
- It's a healthy environment for both, both countries, for both citizenry.
- And Putin, a former KGB agent, knew the weakest pockets of American citizenry in which he could attack.
- And obviously, the roll out of Prep will succeed or fail based on how well we can get the citizenry to adhere.
- How do we broaden the scope of of our active citizenry to say out there matters as much to us as here?
- And other times, it's just clumsy awkwardness and you have to be an informed, alert citizenry.
- In the north northern states, the citizenry was enraged and all in favor of mostly in favor of revolution.
- And one of the major steps about citizenry is I think American citizens need to be educated, educated.
Examples
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By the end of 1968, the relationship between the U.S. government and its citizenry had changed irrevocably.
Academic text (1999) -
But what exactly does this remote citizenry wish to communicate to an international audience?
Academic text (2008) -
'To protect the property and the citizenry... '
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But I say this to our citizenry...
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The challenges in our country is we need to have a more educated citizenry and it starts with teaching history in the schools.
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We pay taxes so the federal government can keep us safe and assist its citizenry when national disasters strike.
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And this is where, as Eisenhower said, only an informed citizenry can avoid our loss of our democracy.
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More importantly, that citizenry was, for the first time in American history, evenly split between white and black voters.
Academic text (2017) -
The creation of a common national identity among a citizenry entails some degree of broad populace participation.
Academic text (1993) -
The citizenry gathered to voice their opinions during the town hall meeting.
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Etymology
Citizenry comes from citizen plus the ending -ry, which means a 'group'. Citizen goes back to the Latin civis, meaning 'member of a city', and is the same root as city and civic, so citizenry is the group of people who are citizens.