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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
Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust doesn’t do justice to West’s paranoia, yet its remoteness captures the liberal Hollywood apathy that no longer identifies with American domesticity and sees its own working class as existing merely to perpetuate ruling-class superiority.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
J. David Goodman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
In contrast, millions of working-class Americans—many of whom were prioritized in previous stimulus programs—would receive nothing.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Progressive group Justice Democrats is expanding its 2026 midterm recruitment of working class, left-wing candidates, undeterred by President-elect Trump’s victory and emboldened by a desire to change how Democrats elect new talent under a GOP Washington.
—Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust doesn’t do justice to West’s paranoia, yet its remoteness captures the liberal Hollywood apathy that no longer identifies with American domesticity and sees its own working class as existing merely to perpetuate ruling-class superiority.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Image In the race to replace him as party leader, candidates have offered an array of approaches but a common theme: the Democratic Party has lost touch with its working-class base.
—J. David Goodman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
In contrast, millions of working-class Americans—many of whom were prioritized in previous stimulus programs—would receive nothing.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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There’s little financial wiggle room, and the club’s recruitment structure is playing catch-up with teams at the top of the Premier League and in its increasingly competitive middle class.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Sepp said that the middle class typically bears a notable burden of tax increases imposed by local and state governments.—
Gary Collins,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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His own middle-class experience of Blackness wasn’t necessarily aligned with his audience’s, and his early jokes — routines about the annoyance of a roommate’s eating your food, for example — didn’t always land.—
Ismail Muhammad,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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This led to the rise of a middle-class community, which allowed the area to thrive and expand as the more Black families moved to the area.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2025
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According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.—
Emily Eakin,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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The social outcast lead is now a Black African (Mamadou Sidibé), action moves to Marseilles and the protagonist is taken in by a suave bourgeois member of the French-Arab community.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And another research team, using data from 2015 to 2022, observed in an article available in Energy Research and Social Science that poor income distribution correlates with social unrest when fossil fuel subsidies are removed.—
Aldo Flores-Quiroga,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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That poor Texas child is likely not to be the only fatality.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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My son didn’t want the standard plain vanilla suspended ceiling.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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With modest effort and our standard test parts, our system looks great all lit up (even with the plain, unlit fans on our 240mm CPU cooler).—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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