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the class of people who earn money by doing usually physical work and who are not rich or powerful
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Recent Examples of working class
Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
But the populist president never lost his base, at first largely white and working class but growing marginally more diverse over time.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
The grassroots organization joined the historic working-class housing organization in Mexico City, the Movimiento Urbano Popular (Urban Popular Movement).
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
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Noun
If the Democrats want to call the working class back home, something must be on the table.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
But the populist president never lost his base, at first largely white and working class but growing marginally more diverse over time.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Adjective
The election exposed mounting struggles for Democrats among working-class voters who lack college degrees.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
The grassroots organization joined the historic working-class housing organization in Mexico City, the Movimiento Urbano Popular (Urban Popular Movement).
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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Twenty-four participants – all middle class, male college students – had been chosen for the study.Tess Foley-Cox, theweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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This new mindset can foster collaboration and sustainable growth, empowering the sales class to redefine the middle class through entrepreneurship and wealth creation.Nikolaus Kimla, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The problem with plutocracy is that billionaires are typically removed from the struggles of working- and middle-class citizens, ordinary folks who share neither the goals nor system of values of the ultrawealthy.Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
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Tall tales like these served to hide the truth that Dylan was a normal middle-class Minnesota kid who grew up loving rock ‘n’ roll and blues before switching to folk.Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 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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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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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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Experience has shown that when any corporation is allowed to operate without competition, higher prices, poor service and predatory business tactics are bound to follow.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
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Aristocrats feasted while peasants toiled and poor Parisians starved, and new delicacies like the banana debuted against a backdrop of imperialist adventures.Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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Headbands Do Blair Waldorf or Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy proud with a sparkly or plain headband that sweeps hair back with ease.Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
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Now, that comes with the caveat that everyone has different dietary needs, budgets, and plain old preferences.Sara Coughlin, SELF, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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