: of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or community affairs
civic duty
civic pride
civic leaders
Examples of civic in a Sentence
Recent improvements to the downtown area are a point of civic pride.
the library association and other civic groups
Voting is your civic duty.
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This is a solution in search of a problem and will only disenfranchise voters and drive down civic participation.
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Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
But in its 11th year, the festival made a deliberate shift toward local storytelling and civic engagement.
—Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
At that time, the Municipal Art Society, an important civic organization of influential people, had expressed an interest in the Circle.
—Lucius Riccio, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
The package also includes a proposal to lower the voting age to 16 for city and Los Angeles Unified School District elections, a change supporters say would expand civic participation among younger residents.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 2 May 2026
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Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
But in its 11th year, the festival made a deliberate shift toward local storytelling and civic engagement.
—Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
At that time, the Municipal Art Society, an important civic organization of influential people, had expressed an interest in the Circle.
—Lucius Riccio, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
The package also includes a proposal to lower the voting age to 16 for city and Los Angeles Unified School District elections, a change supporters say would expand civic participation among younger residents.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 2 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for civic
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“Civic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civic. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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civic
adjective
civ·ic
ˈsiv-ik 
: of or relating to a citizen, a city, or citizenship
civic pride
civic duty
Legal Definition
civic
adjective
civ·ic
ˈsi-vik
: of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or civil affairs
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