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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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as in working class
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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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In many poor and densely populated neighborhoods across the country, people have access to free, unmetered electricity.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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That being said, today was a very poor outing as breadth (advancers vs. decliners) was awful in both markets.Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Trump has been able to channel the intensifying anger of the white working class away from the real causes of working-class distress — away from the big corporations, wealthy individuals, and denizens of Wall Street whose money has rigged the game against average working people.Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
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Until last week, Democratic Party retained the loyalty of the working classes with the bells and whistles of identity politics.David Medina, Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2024
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The Housemaid is an excessively perverse drama about a bourgeois family torn apart by a patriarch’s affair, and the dread of discovery by the community at large.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Divorce or no, Faye is still a bourgeois British woman who quietly goes from having a loan on her countryside home to being an honored guest at literary festivals across Europe.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 28 June 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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Pay particular attention to Chapters 8 and 20, where Graham discusses the margin of safety concept and the simple but profound concept that buying a share of stock is actually owning part of a whole business.Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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That’s right—a process that can involve doctors’ visits, insurance claims, and out-of-pocket costs was as simple as buying Band-Aids or shampoo or batteries.Jasmine Browley, Allure, 13 Dec. 2024
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Another request is to create a 10-year plan to invest in reaching and turning out young voters, particularly on college campuses, and rebuild the multiracial and poor working-class base in all 50 states.Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
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Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and a former presidential candidate blamed the loss on Democrats' failure to focus on working-class issues, and others are clamoring for new leadership.Sarah Gleason, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Middle-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-class. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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