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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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Lesser prey — think Brooklyn’s Cameron Johnson, for instance — might help keep the Kings comfortably in the upper middle class for another few years.John Hollinger, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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The middle classes are travelling abroad once again, as the dream of a neo-convertibility that mirrors the decade of one-to-one convertibility with the US dollar in the 1990s stimulates popular support.Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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For those who choose to join a totalitarian party run by billionaires, who would rather make lives harder for seniors, vets, medically vulnerable & working class than pay their share of taxes.David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
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These parties may still yearn to champion the working class, but this hasn’t been their animating force for decades.Nate Cohn, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeoisie. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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