as in middle class
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
Alex Thompson, Axios, 22 Mar. 2025
Spilt Milk is a wonderful coming of age tale set in the blue collar world of Dublin’s working class.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
The main characters Zoe and Cassie Grossberg grow up in working-class Philadelphia, where many of Weiner’s stories are set.
—Samantha Dunn, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The party has become the party of the college-educated and for the college-educated — and its members talk like it in ways the working class often finds condescending or alienating.
—Alex Thompson, Axios, 22 Mar. 2025
Spilt Milk is a wonderful coming of age tale set in the blue collar world of Dublin’s working class.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, with Dreyfuss portraying the ambitious son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
The main characters Zoe and Cassie Grossberg grow up in working-class Philadelphia, where many of Weiner’s stories are set.
—Samantha Dunn, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
Noun
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Other importers fear for their bottom line, including some in the nail salon industry that has lifted many Vietnamese Americans into the middle class.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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And by talking up the return of factory jobs to America, Mr. Trump directly addresses what four decades of free-trade policies and globalization made worse: the hollowing out of America’s middle class.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In the post-COVID film industry, the middle-class salaries of Hollywood workers are disappearing, while most actors are broke.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Yet for too many people who weren’t middle-class bohemians, the city had become hell.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers.—
Fahad Shah,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 Apr. 2025
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The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie.—
Lanna Apisukh,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Every possible ill, every source of embarrassment to their bourgeois sensibilities, was blamed on the plant.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.—
Matthew Gasda,
airmail.news,
27 July 2024
Adjective
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Road conditions are rapidly deteriorating, with the percentage of roads in poor condition expected to double in two years.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2025
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But academic research has consistently demonstrated that stadiums are poor drivers of economic growth and an analysis published last month found stadium projects spur little growth in local construction industries.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Industry experts say some of the reasons are plain to see: Reports of detentions and deportations, including the weekslong lockup of European tourists, have sowed fears of bad experiences at the border.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Apr. 2025
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Attorneys for immigrant rights groups and five pregnant mothers who sued to protect birthright citizenship said Trump's order violates the plain text of the Constitution, common law history, Supreme Court precedent and more than a century of consistent practice.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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