as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood, as did most of her classmates.
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Recent Examples of middle-class
Bruce Fuller, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Taking steps to harm that is going to hurt working class and middle-class people.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2025
Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
The working class, the middle class, the populist vote, essentially.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Faith in Trump’s policies among blue-collar and middle-class voters continues to mystify many political analysts.
—Bruce Fuller, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
Taking steps to harm that is going to hurt working class and middle-class people.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
Some countries with long exposure to colonial elections, such as India and Jamaica, had a nonwhite middle class that spoke the colonizer’s language and lobbied the metropole state for electoral representation.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
The working class, the middle class, the populist vote, essentially.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle-class
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Without education, students with disabilities face higher rates of poverty, unemployment, poor health, and social isolation.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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Cosgrove, a rookie revelation in 2023, is looking to bounce back after a poor 2024 season.—
Dennis Lin,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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The outer borough working class, not the Manhattan elite, will decide the winner and that’s the coalition of Cuomo’s electoral successes again and again.—
Bradley Honan,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2025
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Where has all the money gone, if not to the American middle and working class?—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.—
Vittoria Elliott,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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Even before the Atlantic City Boardwalk became the iconic scene of the Roaring ‘20s New Jersey bourgeoisie, the Jersey Shore was already increasingly a vacation spot for the wealthy.—
Andrew DePietro,
Forbes,
22 Oct. 2024
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Then a hotelier hung Nymphs and Satyr in a public bar, shaking up NYC's bourgeoisie.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 June 2024
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Styled by Dani Levi, Kardashian wore a simple floor-length bodycon gown from Balenciaga Couture.—
Mikelle Street,
WWD,
17 Feb. 2025
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Yellow is the simplest, and purple is the most difficult.—
New York Times Games,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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On The Undoing, the murder of a working-class mother whose child attends a fancy Upper East Side private school exposes the double life of a respected local physician.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Harris campaign played up Walz's working-class roots, background in the National Guard and experiences as a school teacher and football coach in the 2024 election won by President Donald Trump.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Middle-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-class. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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