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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
Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
He’s also advocated for honing the party’s message to working class Americans and communicating through more mediums like podcasts, gaming platforms and others.
—Dana Ferguson, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
Trump’s nominee to lead the Labor Department reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
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Noun
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
He’s also advocated for honing the party’s message to working class Americans and communicating through more mediums like podcasts, gaming platforms and others.
—Dana Ferguson, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Meanwhile, Turner said Moore targeted his relief towards middle- and working-class families in his new tax plan.
—Gary Collins, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
Trump’s nominee to lead the Labor Department reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
Noun
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Down payment assistance is crucial in that step but also essential in further building out the Black middle class at a time when some Black people are seeing challenges with becoming middle class.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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While Trump talks a big game about standing up for the middle class, his actions betray a profound indifference to their struggles.—
Laura Rodriguez,
Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Their exchange sums up the whole vibe of this biographical jukebox musical about a middle-class young woman from Brooklyn making her way in show business and finding her own voice after years of writing hit songs for other artists.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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Renewing President Trump's 2017 middle-class tax cuts … Adjusting the SALT cap.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
Adjective
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My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.—
Vittoria Elliott,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Without education, students with disabilities face higher rates of poverty, unemployment, poor health, and social isolation.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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This initiative helped avert potential global famines and boosted incomes for poor farmers, particularly in Asia.—
A.J. Russo,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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As shown by comments from Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Fremont, the potential for a blockbuster bipartisan effort to force change used to be plain.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Madewell’s plain, but perfect white tee anchors the entire ensemble.—
Laura Jackson,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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