How to Use socioeconomic in a Sentence

socioeconomic

adjective

• Their socioeconomic backgrounds are very different.
• The socioeconomic lines between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights began to blur.
  — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• But the losses in population tended to be at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and the state has grown steadily richer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• The school flew the flag of élite access for first-generation students, but within that group it was set up to reward those at the socioeconomic top.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• The school has tried to focus on special preference for socioeconomic status but that has not proven a perfect proxy for race.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2023
• But the uptake of testing and shift in social norms has been polarized along socioeconomic lines.
  — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The reasons are layered and complex, as the lack of healthcare access, brought on by socioeconomic status, is a factor.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Mar. 2024
• According to Bonowitz, factors like ableism and racial and socioeconomic bias in the criminal justice system pose too much of a threat to warrant the use of the death penalty.
  — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2022
• Many concluded that damages were far off in time and that socioeconomic systems would have time to adjust.
  — David Schimel, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Meanwhile results about who loses the most learning, whether by race or socioeconomic status or grade level, are all over the place.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
• A lot of these athletes come from poor socioeconomic backgrounds.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• The study also found that Black women in the highest income had a 20% increase in the odds of suicide compared to white women in the lowest socioeconomic status.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Sep. 2024
• The reasons why people are delaying parenthood are socioeconomic and the state should step in and support those who want to have children.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 22 July 2024
• The lead-up to some other World Cups, and to some Olympic Games, have also seen heavy media coverage of human rights, socioeconomic, and climate issues.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2022
• And countries that allow abortions on socioeconomic grounds also allow them in cases of risk to health or life.
  — Josh Ulick, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
• This allowed the group to appeal to a broad swath of Americans and to unite constituents across socioeconomic, ideological, and racial groups.
  — Dana Suskind, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022
• The caste system is a tiered socioeconomic system that consigns people to a particular group, or caste.
  — Myriam Renaud, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
• The racist massacre is a harsh reminder of socioeconomic neglect the community has decried for decades.
  — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 19 June 2022
• Others who forgo alcohol may not be able to afford it, and lower socioeconomic status comes with a host of health challenges.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
• The foundation offers scholarships and grants and has opened golf programs for youth throughout the U.S., with a focus on breaking down socioeconomic barriers to the game.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
• And the fact that two things are associated could simply mean that there’s a third factor involved, such as, say, socioeconomic status.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 19 June 2024
• The lottery tends to be more appealing to people of lower socioeconomic status, Volberg said, partly because the payouts are so high.
  — Brian Murphy, Charlotte Observer, 29 Feb. 2024
• Asked about the turtles specifically, a spokesperson emailed that the agency is aware of the project’s living, non-living and socioeconomic implications.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Gender, age, caste and socioeconomic status all determine who gets care, Menon says.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
• That was, more than any class or socioeconomic status, generational for me.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• The causes appear to be many, from low socioeconomic status and biomechanical strain to poor diet and psychosocial stress.
  — Beth Linker, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
• Because of the small numbers, the researchers could not parse out the rates for different populations, for example, to see if rates were rising more for certain races or socioeconomic groups.
  — CBS News, 24 June 2024
• And in a sport known globally for its lack of racial and socioeconomic diversity, the Comrades has a mostly Black field, many from working-class backgrounds like Mr. Tshabalala’s.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2022
• But the false-positive cases The Marshall Project identified include parents of all socioeconomic classes and occupations — from a lawyer to a school librarian to a nurse who drug tests other people for a living.
  — Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
• Between the lines: The results suggest students have not recovered from pandemic learning loss, but also point to socioeconomic factors like housing instability and food scarcity.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024