as in influx
a flowing or coming in
this affluence of new students is straining an already crowded school system
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Poverty does not always dehumanize, and relative affluence can have its costs in human terms -- costs that are actually, if often dimly, felt.
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Irving Kristol, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2011
In the wake of COVID-19, the surrounding aesthetics of outdoor recreation are reframed as a luxury where access is mediated by what can be purchased—gear, travel, time—or signaled, through a kind of cultural literacy tied to competency and affluence.
—Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
Being online all the time, once a mark of affluence, is increasingly its opposite.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2024
North of us, Palm Beach is a kind of Disney World of American affluence, and the Morikami museum and gardens is a beautiful, and unexpected, pocket of Japan.
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
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Irving Kristol, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2011
In the wake of COVID-19, the surrounding aesthetics of outdoor recreation are reframed as a luxury where access is mediated by what can be purchased—gear, travel, time—or signaled, through a kind of cultural literacy tied to competency and affluence.
—Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
Being online all the time, once a mark of affluence, is increasingly its opposite.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2024
North of us, Palm Beach is a kind of Disney World of American affluence, and the Morikami museum and gardens is a beautiful, and unexpected, pocket of Japan.
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for affluence
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“Affluence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affluence. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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