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
Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025
There is no single issue in this country that has affected our economy and working class people and their jobs.
—ABC News, 9 Mar. 2025
Emilien Hofman (tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
Their father was a Black U.S. Air Force veteran and renowned chess competitor, while their mother was a White British working-class woman.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The embrace of Thompson’s methods quickly led to questions about how to understand the American working class.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025
There is no single issue in this country that has affected our economy and working class people and their jobs.
—ABC News, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Our first meeting took place in October at his mother’s house, a three-story home nestled behind three small plane trees in a working-class neighborhood outside Liège, around 5 miles from where Antoine founded his religion.
—Emilien Hofman (tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
Their father was a Black U.S. Air Force veteran and renowned chess competitor, while their mother was a White British working-class woman.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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Therefore, the long-term solution is to invest into the working and middle classes, and the younger generations, by providing opportunities for upskilling and more.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2025
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The cuts will fall especially hard on the region’s Black residents, who have long relied on federal employment as a ladder to the middle class.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The goal is not to take black children out of the black community and expose them to white middle-class values; the goal is to build and strengthen the black community.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The state Capitol is witnessing the collision of two powerful opposing forces, with checks worth hundreds of millions of dollars to poor and middle-class families hanging in the balance.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 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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Pleated skirts and argyle sweater vests, all in neutral shades of navy, taupe and traditional black, completed the bourgeois wardrobe.—
Rhonda Richford,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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Ibsen saw an individual’s self-determination as a remedy for bourgeois hypocrisy, the first salvo of liberation.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But there is another concerning trend and area that has to be improved — their poor record on second balls.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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The county’s response to the Tijuana River sewage crisis has been very poor.—
Emily Alvarenga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Personal style is all about texture, and so for me, adding texture through an accessory, like a leather belt or gold jewelry, helps make your outfits feel less plain.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
15 Mar. 2025
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Food rationing in the U.K. only ended in 1954, when Twiggy was 5 years old, and her generation lived on simple, plain home cooking.—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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