as in proletariat
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Recent Examples of bourgeoisie
Klimt, of course, is Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), the Austrian modernist widely beloved for his paintings of the most beautiful women of Vienna’s haute bourgeoisie.
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Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The Black bourgeoisie is very present in corporate America.
—Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Here’s where Jefferson’s complicity with Hollywood’s black bourgeoisie prevents him from launching a caustic media critique.
—Armond White, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
This custom has its roots back in the 1880s when Madrid’s bourgeoisie adopted the French tradition of enjoying grapes and champagne on New Year's Eve.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
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Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The Black bourgeoisie is very present in corporate America.
—Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Here’s where Jefferson’s complicity with Hollywood’s black bourgeoisie prevents him from launching a caustic media critique.
—Armond White, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
This custom has its roots back in the 1880s when Madrid’s bourgeoisie adopted the French tradition of enjoying grapes and champagne on New Year's Eve.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeoisie
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Inspired by Karl Marx, the Bolsheviks dreamed of a world communist revolution and held special expectations for Germany, Marx’s homeland, and for its proletariat.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
19 June 2023
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The first scenario does much more to reduce poverty, demonstrating the importance of permanently expanding access to unemployment insurance to workers with nontraditional jobs—part-timers, freelancers, and other members of the gig economy’s swelling proletariat.—
Matthew Desmond,
The New York Review of Books,
28 Dec. 2023
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But the same industry that helped bring millions of people out of poverty and into the middle class has faced a dramatic downturn over the past three years.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Dee Dwyer/for NPR Food insecurity has been rising since the pandemic, even among the middle class More than 1 in 10 people in the U.S. get federal food aid, and food insecurity ticked up again in 2023, according to the latest report from the Department of Agriculture.—
Jennifer Ludden,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
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But what's glaringly absent is a discussion of how this influx of wealth impacts the working class in these areas.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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This was also the beginning of the production exodus, undermining and scattering Hollywood’s working class, as Canada and then other territories began to aggressively chip away at the local economy with their tax breaks.—
Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeoisie. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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