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• An assessment of how Eli Broad fits in among L.A. men of means who tried to shape the city.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• The Brants’ version of Mount Vernon changed the way people of means wanted to live.
  — Town & Country, 3 May 2023
• The Brants’ version of Mount Vernon changed the way people of means wanted to live.
  — Town & Country, 3 May 2023
• The devices then alert the person through a variety of means, to change their posture.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2021
• As people of means — many of them white — continue to move to Inglewood, there’s a push to keep them out.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• Now imagine that rich man being mean to you AND having plenty of means to ruin your life.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• Now imagine that rich man being mean to you AND having plenty of means to ruin your life.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• At the turn of the twentieth century, occult orders had been the height of fashion for any young man of means.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
• The juveniles admitted to stealing the Jeep and were charged with theft of means of transportation.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
• The painstaking construction of the chambers, as well as the goods found inside, indicate the Huans were a family of means.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
• Privileged people of means like me will always be able to get abortions.
  — SELF, 2 June 2022
• Right now, there’s a situation where no one can get any food or any water or anything, even people of means, even those that are well-to-do.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
• Time’s Up began with the best intentions, with women of means pledging their money to stop the predation.
  — Melissa Silverstein, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• Hu could not fathom how someone like O’Loughlin—a man of means and privilege—had come to believe outrageous lies.
  — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
• These revamps appeal thoroughly to the ideal customer of the modern lifestyle brand: the person of means, and in that way the paradigm has not shifted.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2023
• The resistance, research shows, is tied not only to residents’ lack of means to maintain trees but also to distrust.
  — Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
• The threat actor uses a variety of means to compromise its victims.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
• With its relatively lenient visa requirements, the Bahamas now draws migrants of means from around the world, from as far away as China, Cameroon and Iraq.
  — Hannah Dormido, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• He was booked into the Cochise County Jail on several felony charges, including Robbery, 11 counts of theft of means of transportation and felony theft.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 16 Feb. 2024
• But while many parents of means splurged for babysitters, hunted down drop-in day-care spots, or queued up for private-pay day camps, most free offerings stood empty.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Very few people of means these days—people who travel and wear awesome outfits and post about it online—actually seem to have any taste.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
• Gorham was sentenced in 2019 out of Apache County for theft of means of transportation and a drug paraphernalia violation.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• This is testament to their generosity not only of spirit but also of means and resources.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2022
• Russia was an aristocratic society and there were people of means who would get together to talk about the ideas of the Enlightenment.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• According to the police department, the two teens were charged with theft of means of transportation, and the vehicle was returned to Kotsur with all of his possessions inside.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022
• The air force said an array of means was used to try to defeat the Russian attack, including air defense missiles, ground forces, and electronic warfare systems.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
• Some Democrats also seemed open to some form of means testing, calibrating the amount of student loan debt forgiven based on a borrowers’ income.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
• The swiftness of the invasion, and Ukraine’s lack of means to resist it, forced Ukrainians into adopting small, hobbyist-grade drones for missions they were never designed to carry out.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
• Even those lucky enough to have parents of means taking an interest to try to fill the vacuum (think of those Minnesota students) do not see the effect entirely offset.
  — Seth Mandel, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
• Lagerfeld’s most famous was his H&M collaboration in 2003, while Ducasse sees his new Baccarat eateries as welcoming clienteles with a range of means.
  — Miles Socha, WWD, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024