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belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood, as did most of her classmates.
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Recent Examples of middle-class
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
White, who was twelve when the show began, was a middle-class kid from Southern California whose biggest concerns were basketball and Sega Genesis.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2024
The deck has been stacked against the American middle class and those who aspire to be part of it.
—NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
Blue states like California and New York have become simply too expensive for an increasing number of working and middle-class people.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
White, who was twelve when the show began, was a middle-class kid from Southern California whose biggest concerns were basketball and Sega Genesis.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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And the country is in the midst of a five-year economic and financial crisis that has wiped out its middle class and sent poverty rates skyrocketing, from 12 percent in 2012 to 44 percent in 2022 (the most recent year for which there is data).
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2024
The deck has been stacked against the American middle class and those who aspire to be part of it.
—NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle-class
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His role comes a year after a poor performance in his Madison Square Garden debut just eight games into his NBA career: 14 points on 4-of-14 shooting to go along with nine rebounds and a block.Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Visibility was poor because of the long shadows of winter morning.James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Moreover, a shocking number of indicators suggest life in California has grown considerably harder for the Latino working class since the mid-1990s even as Latino representation has proliferated at every level of government.Mike Madrid, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
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The killing has divided the nation, with some regarding Mangione as a hero of the working class, despite coming from an elite Baltimore-area family.Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
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It was screened in places like Picturehouse that are squarely pitched to bourgeois film consumption.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
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His cooking was a bridge between an idea of the past, which came from royalty and then became bourgeois cuisine, and modernity.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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Even before the Atlantic City Boardwalk became the iconic scene of the Roaring ‘20s New Jersey bourgeoisie, the Jersey Shore was already increasingly a vacation spot for the wealthy.Andrew DePietro, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Then a hotelier hung Nymphs and Satyr in a public bar, shaking up NYC's bourgeoisie.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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This small French bakery serves up simple but flawlessly executed French bread, and the jambon beurre sandwich here, served with a thick slathering of butter, grainy mustard and ham on a crusty baguette, reigns as my favorite sandwich of the year.Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 25 Dec. 2024
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Most antimatter particles created in particle accelerators have been fairly simple: anti-protons, positrons, anti-tritium and anti-helium — that sort of thing.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Much of that growth came among the state’s Latino population, which makes up a large proportion of Democrats’ traditional working-class base.Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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The novelist, born to immigrant parents, Mary Hanson, from Denmark, and Peter Walker, from the Danish West Indies, had lived in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago.Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Middle-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-class. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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